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Financial Capital and Immigrant Self-Employment : Evidence from a Swedish Reform
Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2021
We study the role of capital requirement in immigrants’ self-employment decision with the help of a reform implemented in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women the reform increased both the probability of starting a limited...
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : continued losses and the partial rebound in May 2020
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
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The impact of Covid-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
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Sales losses in the first quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from California administrative data
Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2021
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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. …
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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 …
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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...
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Two sides to the evasion: The pirate bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Lundblad, Joakim - 2016
conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence between evasive entrepreneurship and the regulatory response it …, yet its founders became convicted criminals because of it. Applying the evasive entrepreneurship framework to this case … improves our understanding of the relationship between policymaking and entrepreneurship in the digital age, and is a first …
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Property Values and the Likelihood of Self-Employment
Hansson, Åsa; Kopsch, Fredrik - 2020
It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...
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Improved Framework Conditions for a More Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Sustainable EU
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2021
effort requires extensive and broad-based institutional reforms aimed at strengthening the incentives for entrepreneurship …. Innovative entrepreneurship requires collaborations with numerous agents that provide those skills and resources that the … markets, and (vi) human capital for entrepreneurship. The reforms would likely strengthen Europe's innovation capacity at a …
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