Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self‐Employment

By R. Fairlie. Journal of Labor Economics, 2002

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Consequences of cultural practices for entrepreneurial behaviors (2013, unknown): “Since “deviant behavior” signals a propensity to bend or break rules – a characteristic often associated with entrepreneurial entry (Fairlie, 2002; Zhang & Arvey, 2009) – the legitimacy costs of such deviant tendencies would be more severe in societies where most people prefer to live orderly,…”
Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey (2005, unknown): “In addition, industry choice may be constrained due to a lack of relevant skills, discrimination, or differences in preferences (Boden 1996; Boden and Nucci 2002; Robb 2000). Srini vasan, Woo, and Cooper (1994) showed that industry-specific knowledge contributes to”
Attitudes toward risk and self-employment of young workers☆ (2010, methodology): “For example, Tucker (1988) uses self-reported measures of seat belt use, auto and health insurance coverage, and cigarette smokingwhile Fairlie (2002) and Francis and Demiralp (2006) use self-reports on drug use and drug dealing experience.”
Can You Gig It? An Empirical Examination of the Gig Economy and Entrepreneurial Activity (2018, unknown): “Received research has argued that un- and underemployed individuals pursue entrepreneurial activity because they have significantly lower opportunity costs than someone who is fully employed (Block and Koellinger 2009, Fairlie 2002, Storey 1991).”
Why Are Black‐Owned Businesses Less Successful than White‐Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital (2007, background): “…net worth prior to starting 7 See, e.g., Evans and Jovanovic (1989), Evans and Leighton (1989), Meyer (1990), Holtz-Eakin, Joulfaian, and Rosen (1994), Blanchflower and Oswald (1998), Fairlie (1999, 2002), Dunn and Holtz-Eakin (2000), Hurst and Lusardi (2004), and HoltzEakin and Rosen (2005).”
The Relationship between Entrepreneurship Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Meta–Analytic Review (2014, background): “…as role models (Aldrich, Renzulli, & Langton, 1998; Hout & Rosen, 1999), providing a chance for their children to acquire human capital (Lentz & Laband, 1990), sharing a similar preference for entrepreneurial activities (Fairlie, 2002), and transferring financial capital (Dunn & Holtz-Eakin, 2000).”
Entrepreneurship in the UK (2007, unknown): “Indeed, many retirees (either at 282 4.2 Gender, Marital Status and Children 283 state pension age or earlier) may take advantage of the opportunity selfemployment brings to remain in the workplace, providing their skills on their own terms.”
Social capital access and entrepreneurship (2010, background): “3 Individual entrepreneurial abilities include a person’s risk aversion (Fairlie, 2002; Kihlstrom and Laffont, 1979; Cramer et al., 2002) and education (Falck et al., forthcoming; Lazear, 2005), but also practical experience (Fairlie and Robb, 2007) and genetic factors (Nicolaou et al., 2008) play…”
Entrepreneurship training, risk aversion and other personality traits: Evidence from a random experiment (2012, background): “Some of the most disadvantaged groups such as at-risk youth and individuals with a criminal background have high levels of risk tolerance, and thus might benefit more for entrepreneurship training than more traditional job training programs (Myers 1989; Balkin 1989; Fairlie 2002).”