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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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The New Economy in Germany and the United States: Policy Challenges and Solutions.
Audretsch, David; Bank, Matthias; Carree, Martin; … - HAL - 2002
agglomerations and clusters, and (4) the emergence of entrepreneurship as an engine of growth and development. The forces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899401
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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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The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
between computer ownership and entrepreneurship.  Trends over the past two decades provide some evidence of a positive … relationship between home computers and entrepreneurship rates, but the evidence is not clear.  In contrast, an analysis of the … relationship between computer ownership and entrepreneurship at the individual level provides evidence that individuals who had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891744
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The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: 1996-2013
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity is a leading indicator of new business creation in the United States.  Capturing new business owners in their first month of significant business activity, this measure provides the earliest documentation of new business development across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891745
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Entrepreneurship Training, Risk Aversion and Other Personality Traits: Evidence from a Random Experiment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies … explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To … address selection issues, we use novel data from the largest-ever randomized control experiment providing entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891746
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
may be problematic. Applicaiton to computer ownership and entrepreneurship are used to illustrate the technique.   …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891747