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The Inventor’s Role : Was Schumpeter Right?
Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2020
According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into the three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. Following this theory, invention and innovation require different skills. This paper tests whether the invention...
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Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden
Edmark, Karin - 2014
This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the …
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Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden
Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger H. - 2014
This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014169286
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Using Self-Employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship : Some Empirical Caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2014
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 …-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012
We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
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A Left/Right Convergence on the New Public Management? The Unintended Power of Diverse Ideas
Wennström, Johan - 2018
While it might appear self-evident that the trend toward the New Public Management (NPM) in the public administration systems of many Western countries is an outgrowth of neoliberalism, the case of Swedish education suggests that policies can have widely different and counterintuitive sources....
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172
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On the Role of Capital Gains in Swedish Income Inequality
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2011
Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320194
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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2010
industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong …
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