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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron - 2014

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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House Prices, Collateral and Self-Employment

Adelino, Manuel - 2014

This paper documents the role of the collateral lending channel to facilitate small business starts and self-employment in the period before the financial crisis of 2008. We document that between 2002 and 2007 areas with a bigger run up in house prices experienced a strong increase in employment...

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Mexican Entrepreneurship : A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...

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Are Household Surveys Like Tax Forms : Evidence from Income Underreporting of the Self Employed

Hurst, Erik - 2014

There is a large literature showing that the self employed underreport their income to tax authorities. In this paper, we quantify the extent to which the self employed systematically underreport their income to U.S. household surveys. To do so, we use the Engel curve describing the relationship...

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Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship

Dillon, Eleanor Wiske - 2017

Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This paper first documents that...

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Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma : Sources of Monetary Policy Autonomy

Klein, Michael W. - 2013

markets, fixed exchange rates, and monetary autonomy; rather, it is constrained to choosing no more than two of these three …, afford a full measure of monetary policy autonomy. Our results confirm that extensive capital controls or floating exchange … rates enable a country to have monetary autonomy, as suggested by the trilemma. Partial capital controls, however, do not …

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Which Immigrants are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

Hunt, Jennifer - 2009

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...

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Pathways to Retirement Through Self-Employment

Ramnath, Shanthi - 2017

We examine the role of self-employment in retirement transitions using a panel of administrative tax data. We find that the hazard of self-employment increases at popular retirement ages associated with Social Security eligibility, particularly for those with greater retirement wealth....

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Does Career Risk Deter Potential Entrepreneurs?

Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2019

Do potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of concerns that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canadian reform that extended job-protected leave to one year for women giving birth after a cutoff date, we study whether the...

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Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

Levine, Ross - 2018

We study the effects of ability and liquidity constraints on entrepreneurship. We develop a three sector Roy model that differentiates between entrepreneurs and other self-employed to address puzzling gaps that have emerged between theory and evidence on entry into entrepreneurship. The model...

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