 Social security arrangements and early-stage entrepreneurial activity; an empirical analysisAndré van Stel, Peter Brouwer, Sander Wennekers and Jolanda Hessels () No N200518, Scales Research Reports from EIM Business and Policy Research Abstract: This exploratory study focuses on the relation between social security arrangements and the rate of early-stage entrepreneurial activity at the country level. Using a sample of countries participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, we explore how various measures of entrepreneurial activity are related to various measures of social security arrangements. On the one hand we look at aggregate indicators such as the social security contributions or premiums paid by employers and employees. On the other hand we look at micro level based indicators such as 'replacement rates', measuring the benefits an individual is entitled to in case of unemployment or illness/disability. Our analysis using aggregate indicators shows that the height of employer premiums negatively influences entrepreneurial activity at the macro level, but that the height of employee premiums has no impact. The results of our analysis using micro level based indicators suggest that the replacement rate of employees has a significantly negative influence on the level of early-stage entrepreneurship at the macro level. Pages: 30 pages Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eim:papers:n200518 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Scales Research Reports from EIM Business and Policy Research Contact information at EDIRC. |
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