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The Public Roles of the Private Sector in Asia: The Emerging Research Agenda

Florini, Ann - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

It is no longer possible to understand public policy without focusing intensively on the public roles of the business … different relationships among government, business and society in the region. This article explores practice and theory to …

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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015

Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...

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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this … effects on business sales, earnings, or employees. …

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Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for autonomy are central to the individual's decision between self-employment and wage/salary work.Â None of the studies in the rapidly growing empirical literature on...

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The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans.Â However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of immigrants in that sector and theoretical reasons...

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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses?Â The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned … businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.Â Black business owners … are much less likely than white owners to have had a self-employed family member owner prior to starting their business …

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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 - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2013

employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with …

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The Absence of the African-American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self-Employment

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men.Â The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one half the white rate and a black...

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Ethnic and Racial Self-Employment Differences and Possible Explanations

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

countries with high business ownership rates do not have high business ownership rates in the U.S.Â Finally, we find that the …

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Evaluation of the Mutual Recognition Schemes

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

In January 2003, the Government asked the Commission to undertake a study into the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) and Trans-Tasm an Mutual Recognition Arrangement (TTMRA).

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