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Minimum wages and firm-level employment in a developing country

Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed results. One reason for this is the methodological difficulties involved where changes in minimum wages are endogenous to other important economic changes. To overcome this...

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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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Effects of increasing minimum wages on employment and hours : evidence from Sweden's retail sector

Skedinger, Per - 2011

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001-05. The findings indicate that increases in real minimum wages are associated with more separations,...

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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024

We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP that targeted groups with lower socioeconomic status, we...

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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high-growth firms

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018 - Version: 8 May 2018

The basic principle governing the development of the accounting framework is the choice of appropriate comparators. Firstly, when measuring contributions to job creation, we should focus on just job creating firms, otherwise we are summing over contributions from firms with positive, zero, and...

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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...

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Two sides to the evasion : The Pirate Bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Lundblad, Joakim - 2016

Evasive entrepreneurs innovate by circumventing or disrupting existing formal institutional frameworks by evading them. Since such evasions rarely go unnoticed, they usually lead to responses from lawmakers and regulators. We introduce a conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence...

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Stock option taxation and venture capital activity : a cross-country comparison

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2016

One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...

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Entrepreneurship prompts institutional change in developing economies

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2020

economies. Formal and informal institutions in such countries are often sub-par, but rather than being constrained by them …, entrepreneurship can often affect institutions and contribute to their evolution. We highlight three entrepreneurial responses to the … occurs. Better knowledge of entrepreneurial responses to institutions and the context in which they occur offers a promising …

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Measuring entrepreneurship : do established metrics capture high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship?

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2019

Are quantitative measures driven by small business activity also valid proxies for high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship? We compile four hand-collected measures of high-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship (VC-funded IPOs, self-made billionaire entrepreneurs, unicorn start-ups, and young...

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