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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476557

Behind the GATE experiment : evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393362

Access to technology and the transfer function of community colleges : evidence from a field experiment

Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - 2014

Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year … colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … information (which possibly represents one of the mechanisms for positive effects). In both cases, point estimates are positive …

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Mexican-American entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 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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Recent trends in ethnic and racial business ownership

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 23 (2004) 3, pp. 203-218

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Families, human capital, and small business : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the children of non-business owners. Using data from the confidential and restrictedaccess Characteristics...

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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models

Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor) - 2006

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...

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Last hired, first fired? : Black-white unemployment and the business cycle

Couch, Kenneth A. (contributor); … - 2005

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Entrepreneurship and earnings among young adults from disadvantaged families

Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 25 (2005) 3, pp. 223-236

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