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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291885
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228573
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Latina entrepreneurship
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy Mason - 2009
-employment ; entrepreneurship ; female ; minority ; Hispanic ; Latina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809043
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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany
Audretsch, David B. - 2017
, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944787
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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States? /Timothy Bates; Magnus Lofstrom; Lisa Servon
Bates, Timothy Mason; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa J. - 2010
significant barrier to small-firm creation. -- self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; micro-lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011536
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291245
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Gender differences in business performance : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2008
-owned businesses work fewer hours and may have different preferences for the goals of their business. -- Female entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759326
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature
Nathan, Max - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196029
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The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants : a survey of the literature for receiving countries
Nathan, Max - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010372494
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Cultures of female entrepreneurship
Foreman-Peck, James S.; Zhou, Peng - 2014
The present research shows how entrepreneurial culture contributes to the widely noted difference in entrepreneurial propensities between men and women. The consequences of the assumed differential importance of household and family generate testable hypotheses about the gender effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251057