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Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity?

Benzarti, Youssef - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity. We use a unique discontinuity in Finland that allows certain entrepreneurs not to pay social insurance contributions on their income. Using rich administrative data, we find that relaxing the...

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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs : A Review of Recent Literature

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017

entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This … literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of entrepreneurship. We …

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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections : A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is <i>Storable Votes</i>:...

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...

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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants

Casella, Alessandra - 2016

In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Casella, Alessandra - 2012

We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...

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The Impact of Tax Incentives on the Economic Activity of Entrepreneurs

Harju, Jarkko - 2012

Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions of the owners of small businesses utilizing both theoretical model and...

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this …

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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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