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What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? This study stresses the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector. We characterize these aspects of the...
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In this paper it is argued that the size distribution of firms may largely be determined by institutional factors. This hypothesis is tested in an exploratory fashion by studying the evolution of the size distribution of firms over time in Sweden for a period spanning from the late 1960s to the...
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We analyze the development of the Swedish ownership model after World War II. The controlling ownership in Swedish firms is typically concentrated to one or two owners. Often, but not always, the controlling owners are Swedish families. Thus, the model resembles the typical corporate control...
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Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now … creation. In this study we provide an in-depth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be … intrapreneurship can substitute for entrepreneurship. However, in an environment where entry, exit and turnover of firms are important …
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Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...
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entrepreneurship waned in importance, the general public grew increasingly hostile towards capitalism, and by the late 1970s explicit … increasingly predominant, did not foresee the revival of entrepreneurship that took place in the Western countries around 1980. …
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We investigate the dramatic transformation of ownership policies and ownership structure in Sweden during the postwar period. After WWII, Swedish ownership policies were guided by a socialist vision where the ultimate goal was abolition of private ownership. These policies came to an end in the...
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Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...
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sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the … commercialization of research, is widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to compare academic entrepreneurship in the US and … entrepreneurship compared to its Swedish counterpart despite large levels of R&D spending and comprehensive government support schemes …
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