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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. - 2013
employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292800
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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. - 2013
employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293167
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The redistributive effects of political reservation for minorities: evidence from India
Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2009
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271283
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The Redistributive Effects of Political Reservation for Minorities: Evidence from India
Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the state-time variation in reservation in state legislative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532675
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Does Political Reservation for Minorities Affect Child Labor? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - 2014
This paper examines the impact of state level political reservation for two minority groups - Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - on child labor in India. We estimate the effect of political reservation on child labor by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377254
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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - 2014
This paper examines the relationship between elected minority representatives, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to villages by health workers by exploiting the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398328
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Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward
Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - 2016
ethnic and racial minorities and women, with not only anti-discrimination legislation, but also affirmative action policies …
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Capitalism and African business cultures
Taylor, Scott D. - 2014
genuine capitalism and the demands of modern business. Yet contemporary African business cultures reveal that a capitalist … African big business reveals that business and profit are culturally acceptable. Existing theories of African capitalism are … ill-equipped to explain changes in African business cultures, which increasingly are as diverse as any across the globe …
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The Vitruvian Man of Leonardo da Vinci as a model of innovative entrepreneurship at the intersection of business, art and technology
Remund, Mariella C.; Peris-Ortiz, Marta; Gehrke, Hans-Jurgen - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 6 (2017) 17, pp. 1-18
economies is widely recognized and quantified (OECD, Entrepreneurship and Business Statistics, 2015). According to Get2growth …The vital role of entrepreneurship for economic growth and its impact for job creation in mature and developing … and complex in the interpretation, and data presented by the Statistic Brain (Startup business failure rate by industry …
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Integrating Innovation: South Australian Entrepreneurship Systems and Strategies
Roos, Göran (contributor); O'Connor, Allan (contributor) - 2015
of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship can be taken as a study of the entrepreneur and new business creation. However …, this conception of entrepreneurship misses the critical link to economic outcomes; the ebb and flow of social and economic …
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