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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.
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.
As financial markets grow ever more complex and integrated,
households must make increasingly sophisticated and all-too-often
irreversible economic decisions. This is particularly evident in
retirement decision-making. Traditional defined benefit pension
schemes are being replaced with defined contribution pensions;
employer and government judgment regarding how much to save and
where to invest has been replaced by employees having to make these
choices on their own (sometimes assisted by advisers); and retirees
have become responsible for managing their own pension assets.
This volume explores how financial literacy can enhance peoples'
ability to make informed economic choices. It proposes that
financial literacy determines how well people make and execute
saving, investing, borrowing, and planning decisions. It examines
causality using controlled settings to disentangle whether
financial literacy causes saving or vice versa, and demonstrates
that financial education programs do indeed enhance financial
decision-making and asset accumulation.
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