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The rise of private foundations as owners of Swedish industry : the role of tax incentives 1862-2018

Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael; Wykman, Niklas - 2018

-impact entrepreneurship and economic growth. However, research has been hampered due to a lack of systematic historical tax data. The purpose …

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Property rights, entrepreneurship and coordination

Harper, David A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88 (2013) C, pp. 62-77

The notion of plan coordination enjoys a central place in the analysis of institutions and competitive market processes. The conventional wisdom is that institutions and policies vary in the extent to which they promote competition and how quickly and completely they bring individuals’ plans...

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The Entrepreneurial Society : A Reform Strategy for the European Union

Elert, Niklas - 2019

life of its citizens and remain competitive in the global marketplace. We explain why productive entrepreneurship is a way …

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Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …

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Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

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Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Institutions, Finance and the Level of Development: the Impact on Entrepreneurship in Transition

Mickiewicz, Tomasz Marek; Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 1 (2010) 1

) institutional obstacles to entrepreneurship have different impact in rich countries compared to poor countries; (b) institutional … obstacles have a stronger impact on 'opportunity entrepreneurship' than on 'necessity entrepreneurship'; (c) two institutional … indicators - property right protection and access to finance - appear to have a dominant impact on entrepreneurship; (d …

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Illegitimate Wage Practices in Central and Eastern Europe : A Study of the Prevalence and Impacts of ‘Envelope Wages’

Williams, Colin - 2013

Most studies of illegitimate wage practices focus upon informal employees who are unregistered workers and paid on a wholly off-the-books basis. In this paper, however, the aim is to evaluate the prevalence in Central and Eastern Europe in particular, and the European Union (EU) more generally,...

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Tackling the illegal practice of under-reporting employees' wages : lessons from the Republic of Macedonia

Williams, Colin C.; Bezeredi, Slavko - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 243-258

Recently, there has been growing recognition that some formal employees receive from their formal employers two wages, namely an official declared wage plus an additional undeclared (envelope) wage, which reduces the tax and social contributions paid to the authorities. The aim of this paper is...

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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