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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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Self-Employment in OECD Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...

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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

Blanchflower, David G. - 2008

n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...

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An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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Self-Employment : More may not be better

Blanchflower, David G. - 2004

I present information on self-employment from seventy countries. Self-employment rates are generally down across the OECD. The main exceptions are the UK, and New Zealand. The probability of being self-employed across the OECD is higher for men and for older workers compared with younger...

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Young Entrepreneurs in Australia and the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 1991

This paper examines the pattern of self-employment in Australia and the United States. We particularly focus on the movement of young people in and out of self-employment using comparable longitudinal data from the two countries. We find that the forces that influence whether a person becomes...

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A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model

Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 31 (2008) 3, pp. 235-263

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Operationalizing opportunities in entrepreneurship research : use of data envelopment analysis

Anokhin, Sergey; Wincent, Joakim; Autio, Erkko - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 37 (2011) 1, pp. 39-57

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Global entrepreneurship and institutions : an introduction

Levie, Jonathan; Autio, Erkko; Acs, Zoltán J.; Hart, Mark - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 42 (2014) 3, pp. 437-444

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Entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth : evidence from GEM data

Wong, Poh-Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping; Autio, Erkko - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 24 (2005) 3, pp. 335-350

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