Search for dissertations about: "self-employment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the word self-employment.

  2. 1. Essays on Self-employment : A Gender Perspective

    Author : Andreas Mångs; Dominique Anxo; Pernilla Andersson-Joona; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-employment; Gender; Hours of work; Time allocation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

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  4. 2. Self-employment Entry and Survival : Evidence from Sweden

    Author : Jenny Nykvist; Henry Ohlsson; Eva Mörk; David Blanchflower; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-employment; entrepreneurship; liquidity constraints; wealth; displacement; plant closure; survival; success; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay 1: Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher-order polynomials in wealth in estimating the relationship with entrepreneurship. They find evidence conflicting with the existence of extensive liquidity constraints in the United States. In this paper, their approach is replicated on Swedish data. READ MORE

  5. 3. Self-employment in Sweden: A Gender Perspective

    Author : Andreas Mångs; Dominique Anxo; Henry Ohlsson; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-employment; gender; motivation; time-allocation; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses self-employment from a gender perspective. The data used combines survey data with register data. The survey covers various dimensions such as motivation, job satisfaction and time allocations. These are aspects that typically cannot be assessed by register data. READ MORE

  6. 4. Four Essays on Self-Employment

    Author : Pernilla Andersson; Eskil Wadensjö; Magnus Lofstrom; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economics of self-employment; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Wage-Earners who Become Self-Employed: The Impact of Income and wages Does the relation between actual and expected income affect the decision to become self-employed? Wage-earners who receive an actual income that is different from the expected, both lower and higher, are more likely to become self-employed than wage-earners who receive an actual income close to the expected. Self-employed individuals who received a higher income than expected are more successful than other self-employed. READ MORE

  7. 5. When Employees Leap to Self-Employment

    Author : Frederik Witte; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; self-employment entry; occupational choice; idea creation; occupation; laboratory experiment; panel data; survival analysis; data mining; model; entrepreneurship;

    Abstract : The dissertation studies the determinants of self-employment entry through an economics of entrepreneurship lens, and examines two sources of data: 7 years of employer--employee matched panel data and a laboratory experiment. The results suggest that employees are more likely to take the leap to self-employment when they have their own business idea, and are employed in occupations with high wage variance. READ MORE