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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 8, pp. 2567-91

Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate models that include both student and classroom fixed...

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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...

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Determinants of Business Success: An Examination of Asian-Owned Businesses in the United States

Robb, Alicia M.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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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Indian Entrepreneurial Success in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry; Zissimopoulos, Julie - RAND - 2009

Indian immigrants in the United States and other wealthy countries are successful in entrepreneurship. Using census data from the three largest developed countries in the world receiving Indian immigrants-the United States, United Kingdom and Canada-the authors examine the performance of Indian...

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Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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Mexican-American Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Although business ownership has implications for income inequality, wealth accumulation and job creation, surprisingly little research explores why Mexican-Americans are less likely to start businesses and why the businesses that they start are less successful on average than non-Latino whites....

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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from this type of analysis must be viewed as tentative...

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Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

that human capital, especially through prior work experience, and financial capital play in contributing to why female … than male-owned businesses because they have less startup capital, and business human capital acquired through prior work … experience in a similar business and prior work experience in family business. We also find some evidence that female …

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - CESifo - 2013

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