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Billionaires
Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - 2012
Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320224
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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010
Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320292
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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013
The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017
to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917026
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Taxation of Swedish firm owners: The great reversal from the 1970s to the 2010s
Henrekson, Magnus - 2017
By the late 1960s, real effective taxation of income from individual firm owner-ship in Sweden approached 100 percent. A series of tax reforms initiated in the late 1970s reversed this situation. This paper has a threefold purpose: (1) to elucidate the thinking behind the vision of creating a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917040
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Stock option taxation: A missing piece in European innovation policy?
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017
. Innovative entrepreneurship is a complex activity that normally requires support structures and collaboration by actors providing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917044
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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017
We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917046
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Avoiding the housewife stigma: Self-employment as a female career choice
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917076
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Financial and institutional reforms for an entrepreneurial society
Economidou, Claire; Grilli, Luca; Henrekson, Magnus; … - 2018
and finance"- approach to entrepreneurship. We argue that more fundamental reforms are required to improve the … investigating how the interplay of institutions and productive entrepreneurship results in economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917079
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The collaborative innovation bloc: A new mission for Austrian economics
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an …
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