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to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
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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...
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effort requires extensive and broad-based institutional reforms aimed at strengthening the incentives for entrepreneurship …. Innovative entrepreneurship requires collaborations with numerous agents that provide those skills and resources that the … markets, and (vi) human capital for entrepreneurship. The reforms would likely strengthen Europe's innovation capacity at a …
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. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …
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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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Does tax policy affect the rate of self-employment in a modern welfare state? This question is analyzed empirically based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment,...
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
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A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self-employment. …
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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …
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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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