Taxation and entrepreneurship in a welfare state

Small Business Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-97

  Stenkula, Mikael ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Self employment; Tax policy; Taxation; Time series analysis; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860380777     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-010-9296-1     Document Type: Article

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