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Behind the GATE experiment: Evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training

Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited

Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2011

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …

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Property Values and the Likelihood of Self-Employment

Hansson, Åsa; Kopsch, Fredrik - 2020

It is well known that capital constraints can hinder individuals to set up a business. Many business owners rely on own capital or capital from friends, fools and family in order to acquire required capital. In this paper, we study the role property plays for starting a business or becoming...

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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden

Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger - 2013

This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...

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The Great Recession and racial inequality: Evidence from measures of economic well-being

Masterson, Thomas; Zacharias, Ajit; Rios-Avila, Fernando; … - 2017

The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...

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Microentrepreneurship and the business cycle: Is self-employment a desired outcome?

Mandelman, Federico S.; Montes Rojas, Gabriel V. - 2007

This paper links employment dynamics to the business cycle in order to examine the voluntary nature of self-employment in Argentina. Our results suggest that the transition to self-employment is more common during recessions and that the likelihood of becoming self-employed increases with the...

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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Marginal tax rates and tax-favoured pension savings of the self-employed: Evidence from Sweden

Selin, Håkan - 2009

In recent years, the study of how individuals respond to policies that aim at promoting pension savings has emerged as a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a...

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Self-employment and the local business cycle

Svaleryd, Helena - 2013

The business cycle is likely to be of importance for self-employment rates. When the economy is growing, business opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The strength of these pull and push factors may depend...

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Tax Evasion and Self-Employment in a High-Tax Country: Evidence from Sweden

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2006

Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. The incentives for underreporting should be especially strong in an economy with generally high taxes. This paper uses recent income and expenditure data to examine the extent of...

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