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Tax Policy, Venture Capital, and Entrepreneurship

Keuschnigg, Christian - 2000

an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and …

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Not-For-Profit Entrepreneurs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1998

Entrepreneurs who start new firms may choose not-for-profit status as a means of committing to soft incentives. Such incentives protect donors, volunteers, consumers and employees from ex post expropriation of profits by the entrepreneur. We derive conditions under which completely...

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Entrepreneurial Decisions and Liquidity Constraints

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1993

This paper analyzes the role of liquidity constraints in the formation of new entrepreneurial enterprises. The basic empirical strategy is to determine whether an individual's wealth affects the probability of becoming an entrepreneur, and the conditional amounts of depreciable assets, ceteris...

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

Brown, J. David - 2019

. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner …

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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?

Benzarti, Youssef - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...

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Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship

Ashraf, Nava - 2019

segregate into low-return industries and avoid entrepreneurship altogether. In this paper, we present a model of female … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and …

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Defining Opportunity versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019

components to entrepreneurship - "opportunity" and "necessity" - the latter of which is mostly counter-cyclical. Although there … is some agreement on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, there is little … opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship based on the entrepreneur's prior work status (i.e. based on previous unemployment …

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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2019

. A survey suggests this is in part because male participants more often proactively reach out to VC judges after the NVC …. Such frictions can help explain part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, and also have implications for how to design …

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From Population Growth to Firm Demographics : Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share

Hopenhayn, Hugo - 2018

The US economy has undergone a number of puzzling changes in recent decades. Large firms now account for a greater share of economic activity, new firms are being created at a slower rate, and workers are getting paid a smaller share of GDP. This paper shows that changes in population growth...

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Black and White : Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

We use confidential and restricted-access data from the Kauffman Firm Survey and matched administrative data on credit …

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