IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2201

Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited

Robert W. Fairlie, Harry A. Krashinsky

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (2), 279-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2168

Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 32 (2), 153-167

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2101

Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang

substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2039

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

Robert W. Fairlie, Christopher Woodruff

published in: G. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration in the United States, NBER-C, 2007, 123-158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1971

Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1963

Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment

René Böheim, Ulrike Muehlberger

published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1910

Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1440

The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1438

The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets

Andrew E. Clark, Claudia Senik

published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1386

Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published as 'Self-employment against employment or unemployment: Markov transitions across the business cycle' in: Eurasian Business Review, 2014, 4 (1), 51-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1296

Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1292

Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital

Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1280

Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2006, 48 (1-2), 43-71