register data for the period 2004-2008 we do, however, find that the presence of young children increases the probability of …. These results also hold in a panel data model that takes individual unobserved heterogeneity into account. We also analyze … time-use data and find, contrary to what has been found in many other countries, that self-employed women spend more, or as …

The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of … entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches …

-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this …