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Entrepreneurship and earnings among young adults from disadvantaged families

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 25 (2005) 3, pp. 223-236

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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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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2000

A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans. However, the impact of immigration on natives in self-employment has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector. We first present a new...

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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999

We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1997

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...

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The Ethnic and Racial Character of Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1994

Using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses, we show that self-employment rates differ substantially across ethnic and racial groups in the U.S. These differences exist for both men and women, within broad combinations of ethnic/racial groups such as Europeans, Asians, Hispanics and blacks, and after...

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

Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013

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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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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Gender differences in business performance : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 33 (2009) 4, pp. 375-395

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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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