<p>This is a high-tax, high-spend country, where employees receive generous social benefits and ample amounts of vacation
time. Economic orthodoxy would suggest the dynamics of a welfare state like Sweden would be detrimental to entrepreneurship: Studies have found that the more a country’s government spends per capita, the smaller the number of start-ups it tends to have per
worker—the idea being that high income taxes reduce entrepreneurs’ expected gains and thus their incentive to launch new companies.</p> |