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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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Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering ‘breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...
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conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence between evasive entrepreneurship and the regulatory response it …, yet its founders became convicted criminals because of it. Applying the evasive entrepreneurship framework to this case … improves our understanding of the relationship between policymaking and entrepreneurship in the digital age, and is a first …
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We study the effect of taxation on entrepreneurship, taking into account both the amount of entry and the quality of …
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Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role for institutional change and economic development in transition and developing …, entrepreneurship can often affect institutions and contribute to their evolution. We highlight three entrepreneurial responses to the …
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We examine whether Europe has an “entrepreneurship deficit” compared to other industrialized regions. Cross …-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small … business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …
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The interplay between entrepreneurship and institutions is crucial for economic development; however, the view that … causality is bidirectional, in that entrepreneurship is also, for better or for worse, one of the main drivers of institutional …, actively try to alter them, or evade them. Particular attention is given to evasive entrepreneurship, an entrepreneurial …
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We argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important, although underrated, source of innovation, and provide the … first systematic definition of the concept. We for-mulate four propositions of evasive entrepreneurship and illustrate them … rides-for-hire startups in the modern sharing economy. We demonstrate that while evasive entrepreneurship can either be …
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We cast entrepreneurship as one of three career choices – remaining with one's employer, changing employers, or … engaging in entrepreneurship – and theorize how the likelihood of entrepreneurship evolves over one's career. We empirically … demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between accumulated experience and entrepreneurship across various industries and …
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entrepreneurial experimentation comprises both ‘technical' and ‘market' experimentation, and that entrepreneurship must be …
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