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Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for autonomy are central to the individual's decision between self-employment and wage/salary work.  None of the studies in the rapidly growing empirical literature on...
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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans … estimation techniques and specifications. A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market …
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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843035
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Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
We show that entrepreneurship rates differ substantially across 60 ethnic and racial groups in the United States.  These differences exist within broad combinations of groups such as Asians and Hispanics, and are almost as great after regression controls, including age, education, immigrant...
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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development
Clemens, Michael - 2010
globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …
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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development
Clemens, Michael - 2009
Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...
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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 1999
Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.  The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737349
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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
We examine trends in entrepreneurship 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775494
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Recent Trends in Ethnic and Racial Business Ownership
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
rates were primarily due to expansions in the labor force for these groups.  With the exception of female rates in the 1980 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775495
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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365
Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...
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