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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320292
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983855
Private foundations became a vehicle for the corporate control of large listed firms in Sweden during the post-war era, but in the 1990s, they were replaced by wealthy individuals who either directly own controlling blocks or who own them through holding companies. We study potential...
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entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
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entrepreneurship empirically by means of investments made by active owners of closely held firms. Using detailed Swedish tax data, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193322
Private foundations became a vehicle for the corporate control of large listed firms in Sweden during the post-war era, but in the 1990s, they were replaced by wealthy individuals who either directly own controlling blocks or who own them through holding companies. We study potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007129
-impact entrepreneurship and economic growth. However, research has been hampered due to a lack of systematic historical tax data. The purpose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926195
'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a … takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and the results of the nonlinear models are carefully interpreted and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410741
This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.
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High-growth firms (HGFs) are critical for net job creation and economic growth. We analyze HGFs using the theory of competence blocs, linking firm growth to property rights and the interaction of complementary expertise. Specifically, we discuss how the institutional framework affects the...
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