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In this paper we study labor market transitions among self-employment, gainful employment, and unemployment across the business cycle comparing the performance of migrants and natives and controlling for individual characteristics. The Markov chain specification we use is an appropriate...
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It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral...
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Self-employment is often used as synonymous with entrepreneurship. We define entrepreneurship as having the ambition to … gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
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It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms – so-called Gazelles – that...
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This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...
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Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of … entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the … entrepreneurship. In order to unambiguously identify high-impact entrepreneurs we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) who appear …
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In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … evasive entrepreneurship can be both productive and unproductive/destructive, its dynamic character is more important because … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being stifled by existing institutions during times …
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burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …
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. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …
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