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participate, and over 50% of them are entrepreneurs. We then exploit an identification strategy by comparing the entrepreneurial …
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We study the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the quality of entrepreneurship in China. Using long series of … improved the quality of entrepreneur- ship. Compared with entrepreneurs in other time periods, firms founded by the reluctant … entrepreneurs induced by the SOE layoffs have better performances. To explain these results, we present a simple model of …
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Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of … immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers. We provide updated statistics on the share of US entrepreneurs who …
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. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés … into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops increased entrepreneurship. We find that, when compared to census tracts that …
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article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender … financing of startups. Female founders manage 16-25% of all startups, while Black entrepreneurs rarely exceed 3% of the startup … underrepresented founders. The article ends with an extensive set of research ideas motivated by the gaps in the entrepreneurship …
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, we find that 6% of Republicans and 4% of Democrats become entrepreneurs. This partisan entrepreneurship gap is time …-varying: Republicans increase their relative entrepreneurship during Republican administrations and decrease it during Democratic … entrepreneurship around the elections of President Obama and President Trump, and the strongest effects among the most politically …
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economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal …
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entrepreneurship. Higher wealth causally increases firm profitability, an indication that it relaxes would-be entrepreneurs' financial …We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by …
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In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries …. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …
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