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This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...
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to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
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business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe has the same or higher rates of entrepreneurship than the U.S. and East …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 …
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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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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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It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own … property plays for starting a business or becoming self-employed. Specifically, we investigate how property values and changes …
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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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burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self-employment. Europe has a higher self-employment rate than the United … States and East Asia. At the same time, Europe has a lower entrepreneurship rate than competitor regions. Europe … underperforms in entrepreneurship despite having advantages such as a skilled labour force, good infrastructure, large markets and …
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In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … may prevent or raise the cost of exploiting business opportunities, which can trigger evasive behavior because an … evasive entrepreneurship can be both productive and unproductive/destructive, its dynamic character is more important because …
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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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