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El capital social y el autoempleo en EEUU: Evidencia con datos de Facebook
Gutierrez-Lythgoe, Antonio - 2023
This study aims to analyse disparities in entrepreneurship across the United States, taking into account the diverse socioeconomic contexts of each county and emphasizing the role of social capital structures and their connections to nearby regions. To conduct this research, we utilize data on...
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The Underground Economy in Canada
Tedds, Lindsay - 2005
There is considerable agreement internationally about the factors that determine the relative size of the underground economy (tax burden, regulation, enforcement, confidence in government, labour force characteristics, and morality) and that evidence of underground activity will be captured in...
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy at the Regional Level
Gillanders, Robert; Parviainen, Sinikka - 2015
The links between corruption and the shadow economy have mostly been studied empirically at the country level. This … Survey data, we find that sub-national units in which more firms report that corruption is an obstacle to their operations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015247685
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La brecha de género en el emprendimiento y la cultura emprendedora: Evidencia con Google Trends
Gutiérrez, Antonio - 2023
This paper empirically analyses the entrepreneurship gender gap and geographic variations of the entrepreneurship culture in the United States. To do so, we use Google search engine queries. First, we construct a composite index using factor analysis on searches related to entrepreneurship....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015269226
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Self-employment effects on regional growth: A bigger bang for a buck?
Tsvetkova, Alexandra; Partridge, Mark; Betz, Michael - 2016
Economic development policies often revolve around supporting small businesses and new firm creation as they are locally grown and likely can be more influenced by state and local policy. Two prominent strands of current research—the regional economic growth and small business/entrepreneurship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015254213
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Entrepreneurial and Wage and Salary Employment Response to Economic Conditions Across the Rural-Urban Continuum
Tsvetkova, Alexandra; Partridge, Mark; Betz, Micael - 2016
In this paper, we explore how national economic trends in a set of industries that compose local economies and growth in nearby metropolitan areas affect local employment growth in different tiers of the urban-rural hierarchy, paying close attention to the effects of urban proximity. The results...
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: What Drives Human-Made Light?
Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020
in income when controlling for population effects. I find positive effects of GDP on light in both USA and Brazil, though … light is less responsive to changes in GDP in Brazil than in the USA. Consistent with the literature, I discover … shown for the combined USA and Brazil samples, as well as the dis-aggregated samples. Finally, I use a between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255780
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Night-time Lights of the USA
Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020
This paper seeks to advance understanding of the lights-income relationship by linking the newest generation of night-time satellite images, the VIIRS images, to nationwide, panel data on 3,101 US counties, including data on both population and income. I leverage the quality and frequency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015212344
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Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth
Higgins, Matthew; Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel - 2009
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215452
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Night-time Lights of the USA
Dickinson, Jeffrey - 2020
This paper seeks to advance understanding of the lights-income relationship by linking the newest generation of night-time satellite images, the VIIRS images, to nationwide, panel data on 3,101 US counties, including data on both population and income. I leverage the quality and frequency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217236