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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment
Wozniak, Abigail - 2015
Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to perceived drug use. Black employment in the testing sector is suppressed in the absence of testing,...
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Brown, J. David - 2019
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
Inci, Eren; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
We study entrepreneurs’ start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informalnetwork, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals itgets about the hidden types of network entrepreneurs to local financiers, which are thenreflected in different loan...
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employedin Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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Credit Constraints and ProductiveEntrepreneurship in Africa
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Brixiova, Zuzana; Ndikumana, Leonce - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship andprivate sector employment in Africa.... …
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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision towork in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as apuzzle. We offer a focus on the opportunity cost, i.e. the wages given up as an employee.Information on income...
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship andIndustry-Specific Barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
entrepreneurship, wefind that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analysesof transitions to … entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants ofentrepreneurship.... …
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Covid-19 and Entrepreneurship Entry and Exit : Opportunity Amidst Adversity
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2022
entrepreneurship entry and exit intentions during the pandemic. To that end, we analyze primary survey data we collected in the … remote work also matter for entrepreneurial intentions. Our findings enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship formation … and closure in a time of adversity and suggest that implementing entrepreneurship training and upskilling policies during …
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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
increased number of migrants in Europe, factors that positively impact their entrepreneurship and integration merit …
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Can Interactive Online Training Make High School Students More Entrepreneurial? Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda …
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