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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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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

Using Self-Employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship : Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2014

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/10014191114

Female Self-Employment : Prevalence and Performance Effects of Having a High-Income Spouse

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - 2020

Little is known about self-employment as a career choice for women who marry a high-income spouse. We show that Swedish women who are married to a high-income spouse are, on average, highly educated and more likely to pursue self-employment than those married to a spouse in the middle of the...

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Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan

Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

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Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing The Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and The US

Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004987445

Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan

Acht, Joost van; Stam, Joop; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137269

The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; Baljeu, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257561

Entrepreneurial Progress: Climbing the Entrepreneurial Ladder in Europe and the US

Zwan, Peter van der; Verheul, Ingrid; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European countries and the United …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257576