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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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Promoting women's economic empowerment through productive employment and social protection

Otobe, Naoko - 2014

The paper attempts to examine the extent to which the ILO-supported projects have contributed to women's economic empowerment and well-being i.e., from a gender perspective. The paper provides the ILO's perspectives on gender dimensions of employment promotion (involving income generation and...

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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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Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon

Tamwo, Sévérin; Gandjon Fankem, Ghislain Stéphane; … - 2022

In this paper, we examine the determinants of the entrepreneurial behaviour of returnees to Cameroon based on original survey data from 2012. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the skills received from abroad without omitting the effect of savings. We distinguish between three...

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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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Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

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The Interaction of Entrepreneurship and Institutions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2010

supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by … institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by … entrepreneurship. As business entrepreneurship, innovative political activity may be productive or unproductive, depending on the …

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Taxation and Entrepreneurship in a Welfare State

Stenkula, Mikael - 2009

Does tax policy affect the rate of self-employment in a modern welfare state? This question is analyzed empirically based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment,...

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