Little is known about self-employment as a career choice for women who marry a high-income spouse. We show that Swedish … women who are married to a high-income spouse are, on average, highly educated and more likely to pursue self … likelihood of self-employment before and after marriage for women who marry a spouse in the top 1, 0.5 and 0.1 percent to those …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …