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Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

Hout, Michael - 1999

, a data source with rich information on individuals' family histories, to investigate how family background affects self …

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 1997

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...

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Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Health Insurance : Evidence from the Self-Employed

Gruber, Jonathan - 1993

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 introduced a new tax subsidy for health insurance purchases by self-employed persons. This paper analyzes the changing patterns of insurance demand before and after this reform to generate new estimates of how the after tax price of insurance affects the discrete...

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Tax Enforcement and Tax Policy : Evidence on Taxpayer Responses to EITC Correspondence Audits

Guyton, John - 2018

data to examine the impacts of these correspondence audits on taxpayer behavior. The quasi-experimental research design …

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Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions

Bils, Mark - 2014

Employment and hours appear far more cyclical than dictated by the behavior of productivity and consumption. This puzzle has been called "the labor wedge" -- a cyclical intratemporal wedge between the marginal product of labor and the marginal rate of substitution of consumption for leisure. The...

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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Chatterji, Aaron K. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity

Aghion, Philippe - 2006

How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that … innovating. We find that the empirical patterns hold using rich micro-level productivity growth and patent panel data for the UK …

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"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation

Gentry, William M. - 2004

entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …

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Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity : Theory and Evidence for the U.S

Gordon, Roger H. - 2002

tax return data that these aspects of the tax law have had large effects on actual behavior …

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The State of American Entrepreneurship : New Estimates of the Quantity and Quality of Entrepreneurship for 15 US States, 1988-2014

Guzman, Jorge - 2016

entrepreneurship. Building on Guzman and Stern (2015a; 2015b), this paper offers new evidence to inform this debate by estimating … simultaneously account for both the quantity as well as the quality of entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Quality Index (EQI …, measuring the average quality level among a group of start-ups within a given cohort), the Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort …

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