Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship in the United States

by Furchtgott-Roth, Diana; Bruce, Donald J.; Gurley-Calvez, Tami; Even, William E.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Furchtgott-Roth, Diana; Hurst, Erik; Lusardi, Annamaria; Macpherson, David A.; Meltzer, Eric; Woodruff, Christopher M.; Zhang, Junfu

• ISBN13: 9780739121108
• ISBN10: 0739121103
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship compiles academic discussions of real and perceived barriers to the founding and running of small businesses in America. Each chapter illustrates how policy and economic environment can hinder business owners, and suggests what can be done to help them. Starting with venture capital access in Silicon Valley during the Internet bubble, the book goes on to question the link between personal wealth and entrepreneurship, to investigate how federal tax rates effect small-business creation and destruction, to explain the low rate of self-employment among Mexican immigrants, and to suggest how pension coverage can be increased in small businesses. Concluding with an attempt to qualify what makes an entrepreneur, Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship argues that policymakers need not create incentives for entrepreneurs to create new businesses, though there is a great deal they can do to encourage entrepreneurs by removing legal and economic roadblocks to business creation.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
What Are the Barriers for Entrepreneurs?	p. 1
Easier Access to Venture Capital in Silicon Valley: Some Empirical Evidence	p. 15
Do Household Savings Encourage Entrepreneurship? Household Wealth, Parental Wealth, and the Transition In and Out of Entrepreneurship	p. 47
Federal Tax Policy and Small Business	p. 69
Mexican Immigrants and the Entrepreneurship Gap	p. 97
Improving Pension Coverage at Small Firms	p. 123
Success Stories from the Telecom Industry: How to Become an Entrepreneur	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 171
Index	p. 185
About the Contributors	p. 193
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