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. We distinguish between self-employed owners of incorporated versus unincorporated businesses and examine their … entrepreneurs with incorporated businesses, which could be explained by the availability of tax avoidance strategies. Among … unincorporated entrepreneurs, we find a significant response to PIT rates in hours worked only for those who work 50 or more hours …
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-employment into self-employment with incorporated businesses (as a proxy for entrepreneurship) and self-employment with unincorporated …-compete agreements in the two states resulted in a higher rate of incorporated self-employment in these states. In contrast, there was no … sizable effect on the rate of unincorporated self-employment. Our results imply that states can promote entrepreneurial …
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. We distinguish between self-employed owners of incorporated versus unincorporated businesses and examine their … entrepreneurs with incorporated businesses, which could be explained by the availability of tax avoidance strategies. Among … unincorporated entrepreneurs, we find a significant response to PIT rates in hours worked only for those who work 50 or more hours …
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Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the USA have higher self …, we document that immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas of the USA. Our main measure is the … other areas of the USA. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular …
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This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …
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We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
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Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high...
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …
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