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Sociologists have shown that "third places" such as neighborhood cafés help people maintain and use their network ties. Do they help local entrepreneurs, for whom networks are important? We examine whether the introduction of Starbucks cafés into U.S. neighborhoods with no coffee shops...
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We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by … analyzing city averages and omitted variable bias by instrumenting for segregation using historical railroad configurations. We … find that segregation has a significant positive effect: a 10 percentage point increase in the dissimilarity index …
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The relevance of residential segregation and ethnic enclaves for labor market sorting of immigrants has been … segregation and ethnic concentration on various labor market outcomes.The geographical size of the area at which segregation and … segregation should not be used interchangeably, and more importantly, the geographical area at which they are measured relates …
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Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
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Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
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