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of different taxes, and uses cointegration techniques. A further extension is that it studies a Scandinavian high …
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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 …-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …
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Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the United States. In contrast … mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship. …
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in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women the reform …
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We employ geocoded data to explore the effects of ethnic enclaves in Swedishcities on the propensity of Middle Eastern immigrants to use businessownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. Wedemonstrate a robust tendency for immigrants to leave non-employment...
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We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …
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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 …-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …
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Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship we analyze the …
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Existing empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs are optimists, a finding researchers often interpret as evidence of a behavioral bias in entrepreneurial decision-making. We revisit this claim by analyzing an unusually large survey dataset (180,814 responses) that allows us to create a...
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A large literature has studied the effect of displacement on labor market outcomes in general, but none has evaluated how the displaced manage as self-employed. This paper studies how the survival of the business is affected by displacement in connection to entry, using a discrete-time...
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