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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …

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High-technology entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley

Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2011

measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …

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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?

Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013

Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...

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The Supply Side of the Digital Divide: Is There Equal Availability in the Broadband Internet Access Market?

Prieger, James E. - 2002

The newest dimension of the Digital Divide is access to broadband (high-speed) Internet service. Using comprehensive U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem), I look for evidence of unequal broadband availability in areas with high concentrations of poor,...

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Traditional excluding forces: A review of the quantitative literature on the economic situation of indigenous peoples, afro-descendants, and people living with disability

Gandelman, Néstor; Ñopo, Hugo; Ripani, Laura - 2007

Unequal income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean is linked to unequal distributions of (human and physical) assets and differential access to markets and services. These circumstances, and the accompanying social tensions, need to be understood in terms of traditional fragmenting...

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Minority enrollments at public universities of diverse selectivity levels under different admission regimes: The case of Texas

Alfonso, Mariana; Calcagno, Juan Carlos - 2007

This study describes how minority enrollment probabilities respond to changes in admission policies from affirmative-action to merit-only programs and then to percentage plans when the demographic composition of the potential pool of applicants is also shifting. It takes advantage of admission...

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Measuring corporate environmental justice performance

Ash, Michael; Boyce, James K. - 2008

Measures of corporate environmental justice performance can be a valuable tool in efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and to document systematic patterns of environmental injustice. This paper develops such a measure based on the extent to which toxic air emissions from industrial...

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Credit crunches and credit allocation in a model of entrepreneurship

Bassetto, Marco; Cagetti, Marco; De Nardi, Mariacristina - 2013

We study the effects of credit shocks in a model with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, financing constraints, and a realistic firm size distribution. As entrepreneurial firms can grow only slowly and rely heavily on retained earnings to expand the size of their business in this set-up, we show that,...

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An exploratory analysis of the effects of the formalisation policy for individual micro-entrepreneurs

Corseuil, Carlos Henrique L.; Neri, Marcelo; Ulyssea, … - 2014

promoting: i) micro-entrepreneurship in Brazil; and ii) the formalisation of entrepreneurs. Regarding the promotion of micro-entrepreneurship …

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Liquidity constraints, informal financing, and entrepreneurship: Direct and indirect effects of a cash transfer programme

Ribas, Rafael P. - 2014

credit constraints and informal financial assistance in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on …

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