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The importance of entrepreneurship

In macroeconomic perspective: It seems obvious: entrepreneurs start new businesses, creating more employment, leading to an increase competition among companies which eventually will lead to an increase in productivity through technological change. In the long run, the most important factor for economic growth is technological change (Solow, 1956). So, can we take ...

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Differences in entrepreneurship

At the moment, there is much debate about self-employed people (ZZP's in Dutch) in the Netherlands and their (special) tax benefits. In my opinion, it is important to make a distinction in several kinds of entrepreneurship and its economic influence. I think the tax benefits in the Netherlands for the so-called ZZPs (self-employed people) are too generous and do work ...

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