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Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden : A Way to Economic Self-Reliance?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004

Immigrants have a weak position in the labour market in most European countries. Many have difficulties in establishing themselves in the labour market, the employment rate is low and the hourly wages are generally lower than what could be expected from characteristics (age, gender, education)....

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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Wadensjö, Eskil; Andersson, Pernilla - 2004

In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the...

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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004

When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as incomes from being an employee. On the other...

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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

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Income taxation and hours worked in different types of entrepreneurship

Can, Ege; Fossen, Frank M. - 2023

We investigate the effect of personal income tax (PIT) rates on the number of hours entrepreneurs work weekly. Using the rotating panel data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 2003 to 2019, we estimate instrumental variable regressions in first...

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2D:4D and self-employment using SOEP data : a replication study

Fossen, Frank M.; Neyse, Levent; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most ….e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock, which an …

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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … points, i.e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474213