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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker; Strulik, Holger - 2008
Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015
of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
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Long-run effects of technological change: The impact of automation and robots on intergenerational mobility
Heyman, Fredrik; Olsson, Martin - 2023
This paper examines whether recent advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income mobility. Using detailed data on all individuals and firms registered in Sweden, we study whether parental exposure to robots at the occupational level and heterogeneous adoption of...
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Intrapreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
Elert, Niklas; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020
Researchers increasingly recognize that entrepreneurial employees, intrapreneurs, play a critical role in innovation …
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Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Work and Productivity: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2021
We propose a model with asymmetric firms where new technologies displace workers. We show that both leading (low-cost) firms and laggard (high-cost) firms increase productivity when automating but that only laggard firms hire more automation-susceptible workers. The reason for this asymmetry is...
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Jobs Incorporated: Incorporation Status and Job Creation
Åstebro, Thomas; Tåg, Joacim - 2015
Recent research has shown that entrepreneurs who start incorporated firms are fundamentally different from entrepreneurs who start sole proprietorships. This difference suggests that incorporation status may distinguish the self-employed with no ambition to hire from entrepreneurs who plan to...
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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014
We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we fi nd no effect of...
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Job polarization, job tasks and the role of firms
Heyman, Fredrik - 2016
to bridge this knowledge gap by explicitly analyzing how firms influence the current process of job polarization. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794589
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs
Douhan, Robin - 2009
Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...
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