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opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth – net housing equity – for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …
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explore the relationship 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 …
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Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using Census …
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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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equity increases the mean probability of entrepreneurship by roughly 20 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at …
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Using confidential and restricted-access microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that Asian-owned businesses are 16.9 percent less likely to close, 20.6 percent more likely to have profits of at least $10,000, and 27.2 percent more likely to hire employees than whiteowned businesses in...
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less successful on average than non-Latino whites. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of Mexican-American entrepreneurship …
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