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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …
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Self-employment and the role of health insurance in the US
Gumus, Gulcin; Regan, Tracy L. - In: Journal of business venturing 30 (2015) 3, pp. 357-374
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Business accomplishments, gender and entrepreneurial self-image
Verheul, Ingrid; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - In: Journal of business venturing 20 (2005) 4, pp. 483-518
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Measuring entrepreneurship over time
Gartner, William B. - In: Journal of business venturing 10 (1995) 4, pp. 283-301
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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-experimental Evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts - the number of individuals of the same ethnicity - and the quality of contacts - welfare use among members of the ethnic...
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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?
Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - 2012
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317900
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How important is access to jobs? Old questions - improved answer
Åslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - 2006
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...
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Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985 - 2002
Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005
We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the distribution of human capital, industry and geography....
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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants
Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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