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23 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18227
Daily Recovery Experiences of Japanese Small Business Owners and the Link with Well-Being and Ill-Being
Roy Thurik, Masatoshi Kato, Peter van der Zwan, Chihiro Kageura
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17548
Small Business Owners and Daily Recovery Experiences: The Link with Well-Being and Burnout
Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès, Guillaume Soenen
forthcoming in: Small Business Economics, 2026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16122
Labour Costs and the Decision to Hire the First Employee
Bart Cockx, Sam Desiere
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 170, 104859
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15946
State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence
Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós, Tilman Brück
published in: W. Naudé and B. Power, Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Edward Elgar, 2024, 106–140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15515
Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-Time Data
Andre Kurmann, Etienne Lalé, Lien Ta
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 250, 105477
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15445
Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?
Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen, Reid Johnsen, Gentian Droboniku
revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2023, 60, 1613-1629
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14681
Does the Community Reinvestment Act Increase Small Business Lending in Lower Income Neighborhoods?
Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, John S. Earle
published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110146
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14630
Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses
Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik
published in: Small Business Economics, 2022, 58 (2), 593-609
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13707
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Robert W. Fairlie
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727 - 740
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Robert W. Fairlie
published as 'The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: Evidence from the first three months after widespread social-distancing restrictions' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2020, 29 (4), 727-740
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12943
Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
Seema Jayachandran
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9848
Taking the Leap: The Determinants of Entrepreneurs Hiring their First Employee
Robert W. Fairlie, Javier Miranda
published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2017, 26 (1), 3 - 34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9489
Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Yana Morgulis
published in: John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar (eds.), Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 371 - 410.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9267
Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9267
Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8008
Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
published as 'Non-farm entrepreneurship in rural sub-Saharan Africa: New empirical evidence' in: Food Policy, 2017, 67, 175-191
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7544
Do SBA Loans Create Jobs?
J. David Brown, John S. Earle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7507
Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6093
Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit
Christoph Kneiding, Alexander S. Kritikos
published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1741-1749
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4052
Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment and Business Data: An Introduction to Several Large, Nationally-Representative Datasets
Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia Robb
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