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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...
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Last hired, first fired? Black-white unemployment and the business cycle
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2008
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...
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The role of race and birth place in welfare usage among comparable women: Evidence from the US
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2011
individual's experiences could affect their perception and preferences for using government assistance. In this scenario … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare … even after controlling for income, health and other demographic factors like employment. We find that race does not matter …
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? : The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2004
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals." Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...
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Is informality bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2010
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of the earnings gap between informal and formal employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa,...
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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2011
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...
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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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What makes a young entrepreneur?
Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the …
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Do women prefer a co-operative work environment?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
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