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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 … - 1999
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.  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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The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
about the role of personal computers in business creation.  Using matched data from the 1997-2001 Computer and Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891744
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The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: 1996-2013
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
The Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity is a leading indicator of new business creation in the United States ….  Capturing new business owners in their first month of significant business activity, this measure provides the earliest … documentation of new business development across the country.  The percentage of the adult, non-business owner population that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891745
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Entrepreneurship Training, Risk Aversion and Other Personality Traits: Evidence from a Random Experiment
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To address selection issues, we use novel data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891746
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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
self-employment industries.  Recently, the increase in business ownership was caused by an end to the within industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775494
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Recent Trends in Ethnic and Racial Business Ownership
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
s, trends in business ownership rates were fairly flat over the past two decades.  There were, however, important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775495
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843011
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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.  None of the studies in the rapidly growing empirical literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843017
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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.  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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843019
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses?  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.  Black business owners … are much less likely than white owners to have had a self-employed family member owner prior to starting their business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843022