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Using Self-employme...
Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship : Some Empirical Caveats
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- Bjuggren, Carl Magnus (författare)
- Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Stockholm School of Economics/EHFF, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Johansson, Dan, 1964- (författare)
- The Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stenkula, Mikael (författare)
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stockholm : Ratio, 2010
- Engelska.
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Serie: Ratio Working Papers ; 154
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Abstract
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest inrecent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for“entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining selfemployment,making it a somewhat dubious proxy. This may flaw the analysis, especially incross-country studies, since the documentation of data often is insufficient and difficult toaccess due to language barriers. We present an analysis of Swedish self-employment data. Weshow that the measurement of self-employment has changed over time to noticeably affect thereported number of self-employed in the two major statistical sources on self-employment.The reported development of self-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending onsource. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in self-employment in cross-country studies. Our study mimics the results of other country-specificanalyses and we conclude that well-grounded conclusions require that the advantages anddisadvantages of different statistical sources are recognized.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Labor Force Survey
- RAMS
- self-employed
- self-employment
- entrepreneurship.
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- vet (ämneskategori)
- rap (ämneskategori)