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This report presents state trends in early-stage entrepreneurship in the United States, including all 50 states and the …
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The Kauffman Indicators of Early-Stage Entrepreneurship is a set of measures that represents new business creation in … the United States, integrating several high-quality, timely sources of information on early-stage entrepreneurship. This … report presents four indicators that track early-stage entrepreneurship for the years 1996–2020: rate of new entrepreneurs …
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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...
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The Kauffman Indicators of Early-Stage Entrepreneurship is a set of measures that represents new business creation in … the United States, integrating several high-quality, timely sources of information on early-stage entrepreneurship ….This report presents four indicators tracking early-stage entrepreneurship for the years 1996-2021: rate of new entrepreneurs …
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be entrepreneurs as white men. The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employed business ownership that is approximately one half the white rate and a...
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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self-employed. In the United States, however, rates of self-employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial...
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Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey, 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...
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measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for businessmen and professionals. Using data from the confidential and restricted access Characteristics of...
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components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …
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