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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : continued losses and the partial rebound in May 2020
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262089
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Do women have a less entrepreneurial personality?
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - 2012
A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737923
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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007
ambiguities and estimates it for data from 23 OECD countries between 1974 and 2002. The empirical results confirm the existence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280373
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Income loss among the self-employed : implications for individual wellbeing and pandemic policy measures
Schneck, Stefan - 2021
Due to the pandemic-induced economic crisis, self-employed individuals are currently suering considerable income losses. The self-employed and the members in their households usually form an economic unit. As a consequence, the income cuts not only aect the self-employed themselves but also the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696106
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Jobs incorporated : incorporation status and job creation
Åstebro, Thomas; Tåg, Joacim - 2015
. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490795
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Hierarchies, the small firm effect, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Swedish microdata
Tåg, Joacim; Åstebro, Thomas; Thompson, Peter - 2013
enter entrepreneurship, to become self-employed, and to switch to another employer. The effects of layers are much stronger … for business creation than for jobswitching and they are stronger for entrepreneurship than for self-employment. However … fewer layers having a broader range of skills. -- entrepreneurship ; employee mobility ; hierarchy, rank, small firm effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709507
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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship : an agenda for Europe
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017
to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603954
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Avoiding the housewife stigma : self-employment as a female career choice
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top of the income distribution are more likely to enter self-employment, which is also associated with a lower income. This can be interpreted as a career choice that produces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806220
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Well-being effects of self-employment : a spatial inquiry
Abreu, Maria; Öner, Özge; Brouwer, Aleid; Leeuwen, … - 2018
Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926106
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
for higher returns to human capital for entrepreneurs. -- Entrepreneurship ; Ability ; Occupational Choice ; Human Capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872559