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- 2017
- Working Paper
Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
By: Eleanor W. Dillon and Christopher T. Stanton
Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about entrepreneurial earnings, this option increases the expected lifetime value of self-employment relative to pay in a single year. This... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Small Business; Business Earnings; Entrepreneurship; Ownership; Compensation and Benefits
Dillon, Eleanor W., and Christopher T. Stanton. "Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-022, September 2016. (Revised March 2018.)
- 17 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
- 18 Jun 2010
- News
The Search: Taking the Leap to Self-Employment
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Transformation of Self Employment
By: Innessa Colaiacovo, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed. Since 1970, industries with high startup capital requirements have declined from 53% of self-employment to... View Details
Keywords: Self-employment; Startup Investment; Occupational Choice; Financing; Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Financing and Loans
Colaiacovo, Innessa, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "The Transformation of Self Employment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-051, January 2022.
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that advertising would produce a positive return on average for restaurants in our sample. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51728 Self-Employment Dynamics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2023
- Article
Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 183–220.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance
By: Gareth Olds
I examine the relationship between public health insurance and firm formation. Developing a variant of regression discontinuity, I find the Child Health Insurance Program lowered the child uninsured rate by 40% and increased self-employment by 15%. Monte Carlo evidence... View Details
Olds, Gareth. "Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-144, June 2016.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Industry Clusters; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks; United States
Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-042, October 2015. (Revised November 2020. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21597, September 2015)
- 10 Feb 2016
- HBS Seminar
Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA
- September 2013
- Article
Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?
By: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic and P C Early
With a mandate to globalize, business school educators have increasingly embraced global service learning as an important technique for creating global mind-sets and enhancing cultural understanding in students. While we applaud this movement from the domestic to the... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
Mosakowski, Elaine, Goran Calic, and P C Early. "Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?" Academy of Management Learning & Education 12, no. 3 (September 2013): 512–526.
- Web
Research - Managing the Future of Work
Entrepreneurship By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
startup capital, such as construction and child care. Industries that need more startup capital—such as farming, retail, trade, and hotels—have declined from 55 percent of self-employment in 1970 to 23 percent in the last decade. Kerr and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
and output of analysts in emerging-market contexts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54281 Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship By: Dillon, Eleanor W., and Christopher T.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Literature This paper brings together recent findings in the academic literature on the prevalence of various personality traits among entrepreneurs and their impact on venture performance. Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
experiment isn't practical or ethical. (In this case households that qualified for SCHIP were the treatment group.) The data showed that SCHIP had a significant positive effect on entrepreneurship. The program increased the View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
downs of their companies, and the ability of those enterprises to create jobs. “Before this, the most prominent source of information we had was self-employment statistics,” says Kerr. Self-employment, however, can mean many things and is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and Alaska, finally retiring last year... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
significant NPE pass-through to end innovators, nor of a positive impact of NPEs on innovation in the industries in which they are most prevalent. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47648 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
able to manufacture many of the things we need on our 3-D printers with recycled materials? Will the Internet of Things and "collaborative commons" enable even greater productivity and efficiency leading to fewer jobs? Or do these innovations foster View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and Gujarati-speaking Indians are similarly 108 times more concentrated in managing motels. We develop a model of social interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne