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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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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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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona - 2009

In this paper we construct a model in which entrepreneurial innovations are sold into oligopolistic industries and where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as exacerbated development by better-informed venture-backed...

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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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The Collaborative Innovation Bloc : A New Mission for Austrian Economics

Elert, Niklas - 2018

innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an …

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Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Antifragility

Elert, Niklas - 2020

We present the theory of the collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), an evolving system of innovation within which activity takes place over time. We show how the application of the CIB perspective can help make institutional and evolutionary economics more concrete, relevant, and persuasive,...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006

We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...

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The Inventor’s Role : Was Schumpeter Right?

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2020

According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into the three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. Following this theory, invention and innovation require different skills. This paper tests whether the invention...

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