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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R. - 2015
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United …-isolated groups achieving considerable economic success via concentrated entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence from the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457072
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Black and White : Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit scores to explore racial disparities in access to capital for new business ventures. The novel results on racial inequality in startup financing indicate that black-owned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482373
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544679
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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons : Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs
Bahar, Dany; Cowgill, Bo; Guzman, Jorge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal … business registry, we study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia that made nearly half a million Venezuelan undocumented migrants …
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Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from <2% to >40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater linguistic distance to English, lower...</2%>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482724
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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
Alesina, Alberto - 1997
We present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public good the city supplies. We test the implications of the model with three related datasets: US cities, US metropolitan areas, and US urban counties. Results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472809
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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
This paper argues that redrawing subnational political boundaries can transform ethnic divisions. We use a natural policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within which groups are organized. Redistricting along group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453094
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Social Structure and Conflict : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Moscona, Jacob - 2018
We test the long-standing hypothesis that ethnic groups that are organized around `segmentary lineages' are more prone to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong allegiances to distant relatives, individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453504
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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity : Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia
Alesina, Alberto - 2014
This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the degree of ethnic fractionalization at the district level. To identify a casual relation we exploit the exogenous timing of variations in the level of ethnic heterogeneity due to the creation of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458163
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Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2009
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light … on the important hypothesis of smoothing. The smoothing hypothesis is that remittances are countercyclical with respect … affirmation of smoothing is important for two reasons. First, it suggests that remittances should be placed on the list of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463230