全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP13683 Has the Swedish Business Sector Become More Entrepreneurial than the US Business Sector?

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13683
	DP13683 Has the Swedish Business Sector Become More Entrepreneurial than the US Business Sector?
	Lars Persson; Fredrik Heyman; Pehr-Johan Norbäck
发表日期	2019-04-18
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the U.S. Using detailed Swedish employer-employee data over the period 1990 to 2013, we find young firms to be more prominent in the Swedish business sector than in the U.S. business sector. Young Swedish firms, aged five years or less, account for more than half of all firms during this period. We also observe an increase in Swedish entrepreneurial activity for start-ups. However, increasing job destruction rates for young firms has implied a declining employment share for younger firms from the mid-2000s. Moreover, most of the job creation by young firms occurs in the expanding service sector. We discuss different explanations for why Sweden appears not to have the same strong decline in entrepreneurial activity as the U.S. has had during the last two decades. We argue that one important explanation is economic reforms in Sweden in the 1990s that mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship.
主题	Industrial Organization
关键词	entrepreneurship Job dynamics Matched employer-employee data Industrial structure and structural change
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13683
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542542
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lars Persson,Fredrik Heyman,Pehr-Johan Norbäck. DP13683 Has the Swedish Business Sector Become More Entrepreneurial than the US Business Sector?. 2019.