Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative …-tax welfare state. Earlier time-series studies analyzing self-employment and taxation have with few exceptions been based on data …

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 … of data often is insufficient and difficult to access due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self …

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … entrepreneurs. We use detailed survey data from Sweden to study to what extent this gender gap can be explained by gender … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …

Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …

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 …

. Using a dataset with over 24 million observations and more than 230,000 entries into entrepreneurship, we show that newly …

to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …