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Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

shape equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and … labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public … production of private goods on entrepreneurship dominates the crowding-in effect of public production of public goods in the OECD …

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Enterprise formation and labor market institutions

Kanniainen, Vesa; Vesala, Timo - 2000

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781640

Entrepreneurship in a unionised economy

Leppämäki, Mikko; Kanniainen, Vesa - 2000

labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated … numerically. The main result is that an increase in union power reduces the equilibrium rate of entrepreneurship and reduces the …

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School competition and students' entrepreneurial intention : international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling

Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

shares, students’ academic skills, and parents’ entrepreneurial occupation. -- private school competition ; entrepreneurship …

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Tax neutrality: illusion or reality? : the case of entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); … - 2008

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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007

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Nordic dual income taxation of entrepreneurs

Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Kari, Seppo (contributor); … - 2005

The paper shows how entrepreneurial taxes interact with the career choice of individuals, the quality of entrepreneurs, and their effort and investments. It is particularly relevant to differentiate the early effects on start-up enterprises with substantial uncertainty from the tax effects on...

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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …

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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 2007

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