首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Read the following article and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. Mark
Read the following article and answer questions 19-25. For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D. Mark
admin
2017-04-19
42
问题
Read the following article and answer questions 19-25.
For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C or D.
Mark your answer on your Answer Sheet.
Small, Imperfectly Formed
One has to look a long time for an American politician of any political stripe who has failed to laud small businesses. Still, many have little clue as to what makes such businesses succeed or fail.
Federal agencies aimed at helping small business, such as the Small Business Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency, have been around for half a century, yet persistent differences remain between the performance of businesses founded by white, male entrepreneurs and the rest. Blacks are less likely to be self-employed, for example, and when they are their businesses, on average, have lower sales and profits than do their white-or Asian-owned counterparts. If researchers could explain the causes of these differences, policy-makers could(at least in theory)supply small businesses with more useful help.
Two researchers for the Census Bureau’s Centre for Economic Studies, Ron Jarmin and C.J. Krizan, recently published a working paper attempting to understand demographic differences behind small businesses’ success and failure. They concentrated on the years 2002 to 2005, with three databases at their disposal: the Survey of Business Owners, conducted every five years; the Longitudinal Foreign Trade Transaction Database, which includes every US export transaction between 1992 and 2005; and a database co-developed by Mr Jarmin, which allowed the authors to track whether the owners of the firms in their sample had prior experience being their own bosses. By drawing from on the power of the Census’s data collection efforts, the authors hoped to create a more nuanced picture of business survival.
Some of their findings were not terribly surprising. A firm’s chances of survival, regardless of the race or sex of its owner, decreased in poorer areas; and the better the education of the founder, the more likely it was to succeed. Businesses owned by Asians, Hispanics, or Pacific Islanders were more likely to be exporters. Older entrepreneurs were more likely to use personal savings to start their businesses; younger owners were more likely to have to close up shop during the study period than were their middle-aged rivals.
However, the data also confirmed that black-and female-owned businesses tended to perform worse than the average. They were also less likely to have been funded by bank loans. Still, the businesses that survived, regardless of the owner’s race, tended to add employees at similar rates. Furthermore, after controlling for factors such as the education and race of the owner, there was no statistically significant difference in firms’ abilities to expand into different locations. Finally, black entrepreneurs were more likely to have a history of self-employment than their white counterparts. Messrs Jarmin and Krizan’s paper is not the first to suggest that black entrepreneurs, less likely to have other business owners in their family or personal networks, tend to "start small" when they venture out on their own.
Most researchers get to end their papers by speculating, usually without much fear of consequence, as to the policy implications of their work. The authors of this paper, not wishing to imply that the Census Bureau might have policy opinions, declined to do so. But the reader can make some guesses. One is that mentorship programmes may be particularly useful for promoting entrepreneurship among blacks. Another is that reaching out to businesses based on the owner’s race might be less useful than supporting businesses in poorer areas. And small businesses of all stripes would be helped by improving that other institution lauded by politicians: America’s education system.
According to Ron Jarmin and C.J. Krizan’s paper, it is true that______.
选项
A、older entrepreneurs were more keen on saving money
B、education played a role in running a small business
C、a business run by a black was less likely to survive in a poor area
D、younger entrepreneurs spent more time on study
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/VG9d777K
本试题收录于:
BFT阅读题库国际化人才外语考试(BFT)分类
0
BFT阅读
国际化人才外语考试(BFT)
相关试题推荐
Writeanessayabout120wordsonthefollowingtopic:DoesEveryoneNeedtoGotoCollege?
Yougotaletterfromacompanymanager,JimGreen.Dec.1st,20
Readthefollowingjobadvertisementintoday’sDailyTelegraph,YouareAnnJonesandwritealetterabout120wordsofapplica
YouareBarbaraCrust,themotherofRoger.YouwritealettertoinviteAlfred,Roger’sbestfriendatschool,tocomeandstay
Youareaskedtowriteacompositioninwhichyougiveyourownopinionsonthefollowingstatement:Trafficandhousingpro
HereisaletterwhichcomplainsaboutthequalityoftheTVsetboughtinastore.Readtheletterandcompletethegiveninfor
HereisaletterwhichcomplainsaboutthequalityoftheTVsetboughtinastore.Readtheletterandcompletethegiveninfor
HereisaletterwhichcomplainsaboutthequalityoftheTVsetboughtinastore.Readtheletterandcompletethegiveninfor
HereisaletterwhichcomplainsaboutthequalityoftheTVsetboughtinastore.Readtheletterandcompletethegiveninfor
随机试题
下列关于肾小管酸中毒的治疗不正确的是
井组注采曲线有哪些主要内容?
二尖瓣狭窄最常见的早期症状
A.肠息肉B.结肠癌C.肠套叠D.粘连性肠梗阻小儿粪便表面带鲜血常见于
女,20岁,1个月前因工作差错被领导批评后出现心情烦躁,经常哭泣,认为自己没有能力,什么事都干不好,周围人的眼神不怀好意,看她笑话。失眠,早醒。近1周病情加重,觉得生不如死,在家中拒食等死。该患者不宜使用的药物是
工程竣工结算价款包括()。
Excel中的公式是指一系列运算体和运算符在单元格中有序连接而成的特定组合。()
下列属于货币市场工具的有()。
(单选题)宋明理学反映了中国古代社会后期有思想有见识的中国人在思考和解决现实社会问题与文化问题中所生出来的哲学智慧,它深深地影响了中国古代社会后半期的社会发展和文明走势。提出“宇宙便是吾心”观念的理学家是()
IwaslatefortheinterviewbecausethebusonthewaytoLondon.
最新回复
(
0
)