Do Entrepreneurs Create Jobs?

By Stefan Fölster. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation (2004, background): “For example, Foelster (2000) examines not just the employment impact within new and small firms but on the overall link between increases in self-employment and total employment in Sweden between 1976-1995.”
Sustaining Innovation and Growth: Public Policy Support for Entrepreneurship (2004, background): “For example, Foelster (2000) examines not only the impact of employment within new and small firms, but the overall link between increases in self-employment and total employment in Sweden between 1976 and 1995.”
Job Creation by the Self-employed: The Roles of Entrepreneurial and Financial Capital (2005, methodology): “evidence from county-level panel data for Sweden from 1975 to 1995 (Folster, 2000).”
Institutions, Latent Entrepreneurship, and Self–Employment: An International Comparison (2012, background): “Increases in entrepreneurship also result in growth in total employment (Fölster, 2000). However, because of differing initial conditions, the levels of entrepreneurship, employment, and economic growth differ among countries (van Stel, Carree, & Thurik, 2005). For example, Parker and Robson (2004) ”
What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research (2007, unknown): “Studies in our sample that 10 The studies by Fritsch (1997) and Fölster (2000) are limited to the short (or medium term). follow this methodology are Calvo (2006, Spain), Hart and Oulton (1996, UK), Konings (1995, UK), and Oliveira and Fortunato (2006, Portugal).”
The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Economic Growth (2003, background): “Fritsch (1997) and Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) relate start-up activity in German regions to subsequent growth.”
Job control and demands, work-life balance and wellbeing among self-employed men and women in Europe (2012, background): “This is evident in the large number of jobs they provide and also their ability to create new ones (Davidsson, 2005; Fölster, 2000; Henrekson & Stenkula, 2009).”
Entrepreneurship, regional development and job creation: the case of Portugal (2007, background): “Foelster (2000) finds a positive effect of increased self-employment rates on regional employment for Sweden.”
Entrepreneurship - A Survey of the Literature - (2006, background): “For example, Foelster (2000) examines not just the employment impact within new and small firms but on the overall link between increases in self-employment and total employment in Sweden between 1976-1995.”