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Oval-sustainability in entrepreneurship
Pashkevych, Maryna; Kharchenko, Maryna; Shishkova, Nataliia - In: Open Economics 1 (2018) 1, pp. 142-153
areas, we raised a question: whether it is an achievable goal for ordinary business units to develop sustainably. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598225
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Oval-sustainability in entrepreneurship
Pashkevych, Maryna; Kharchenko, Maryna; Shishkova, Nataliia - In: Open economics 1 (2018) 1, pp. 142-153
areas, we raised a question: whether it is an achievable goal for ordinary business units to develop sustainably. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989211
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this … effects on business sales, earnings, or employees. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843011
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843017
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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.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector and theoretical reasons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843019
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses?  The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned … businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners … are much less likely than white owners to have had a self-employed family member owner prior to starting their business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843022
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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
countries with high business ownership rates do not have high business ownership rates in the U.S.  Finally, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843057
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Entrepreneurship, management, and sustainable development
Ahmed, Allam; McQuaid, Ronald W. - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 1 (2005) 1, pp. 6-30
Successful management in the new millennium requires developing new methods and approaches to suit the challenges and opportunities of this new era of globalisation. An entrepreneurial approach is seen by many scholars and policy makers as a major option to enhance organisational performance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005753564
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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