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Start-up rates, Entrepreneurship Culture and the Business Cycle. Swedish patterns from national and regional data

Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to capture such phenomena, and refers in a general...

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Local Clusters of Entrepreneurs -neighborhood peer effects in entrepreneurship?

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P. - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

Entrepreneurial activity is significantly predicted by the presence of other entrepreneurs in the residential neighborhood. One plausible source of such spatial clustering is local peer effects, where individuals’ decisions to become entrepreneurs are influenced by entrepreneurial neighbors....

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The Sources of the Urban Wage Premium by Worker Skills

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan; Larsson, Johan P - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

We estimate the respective importance of spatial sorting and agglomeration economies in explaining the urban wage … premium for workers with different sets of skills. Sorting is the main source of the wage premium. Agglomeration economies are … workers with routine jobs, agglomeration economies are virtually non-existent. Our results provide further evidence of spatial …

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How Local are Spatial Density Externalities? evidence from square grid data

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan; P. Larsson, Johan - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012

We analyze the geographic scale at which density externalities operate and their attenuation with distance. Using square grid data at a fine spatial resolution, we find that a doubling of neighborhood density, measured as the density of 1 km2 squares, yields an increase in the overall wage-level...

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Market Thickness and the Early Labor Market Career of University Graduates- An urban advantage?

Ahlin, Lina; Andersson, Martin; Thulin, Per - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

We analyze the influence of market thickness for skills on initial wages and subsequent wage development of university graduates. Using Swedish micro-level panel data on a cohort of graduates, we show that two out of three graduates move to large cities upon graduation. Large cities yield higher...

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