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Self-employed immigrants and their employees: Evidence from Swedish employer-employee data

Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018

We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points for their time immigration to Sweden. High...

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Learning from overrated mission-oriented innovation policies: Seven takeaways

Henrekson, Magnus; Sandström, Christian; Stenkula, Mikael - 2023

This paper integrates findings from several different case studies on Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies (MOIPs) and makes use of existing literature to briefly describe three other missions: The War on Cancer, homeownership in the United States, and the Swedish Million Program. Together with...

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Bottom-up policies trump top-down missions

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2023

entrepreneurship requires many other actors - besides the entrepreneur - whose skills and abilities are necessary to realize an … framework that levels the playing field for potential entrepreneurs and encourages productive entrepreneurship. To promote this … foster innovation and, in the end, the welfare-enhancing productive entrepreneurship policymakers and scholars strive for. …

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Moonshots and the new industrial policy: Questioning the mission economy

Henrekson, Magnus; Sandström, Christian; Stenkula, Mikael - 2024

framework that levels the playing field for potential entrepreneurs while encouraging productive entrepreneurship. …

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Political Failures in Innovation Policy: A Cautionary Note

Kärnä, Anders; Karlsson, Johan; Engberg, Erik - 2020

Within the field of innovation studies, researchers have identified several market failures that hamper investment in R&D, innovation and growth in a market economy. Several policies such as government subsidies, tax deductions, soft loans, and public venture capital provided to firms that...

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Financial Capital and Immigrant Self-Employment: Evidence from a Swedish Reform

Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2020

We study the role of capital requirement in immigrants' self-employment decision with the help of a reform implemented in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women, the reform increased both the probability of starting a limited...

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Ethnic Differences in Long-Term Self-Employment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats; … - 2020

We study ethnic differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique survey targeting a large representative sample of the total population of long-term self-employed. Using the registers, we analyze the evolution of labor and capital income...

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Fertile Soil for Intrapreneurship: Impartial Institutions and Human Capital

Ljunge, Martin; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020

Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped research area. This paper provides a seminal contribution regarding the methodological approach...

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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020

In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...

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Collaborative innovation blocs and mission-oriented innovation policy: An ecosystem perspective

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2021

demonstrate that innovative entrepreneurship takes place in a collaborative innovation bloc consisting of a myriad of nodes …

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