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Self-Employment and Unemployment in Spanish Regions in the Period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio; Stel, Adriaan J. van - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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Does Entrepreneurship create enough Jobs in Europe?

Georgiou, Miltiades N. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

"Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: The Case of Portugal" by R. Baptista, V. Escárta and P. Madruga, MPI #0605, in … which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment... …

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when compared to other …

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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Thurik, Roy; Stel, Adriaan J. van; Carree, Martin Anthony; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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The Relationship between Entrepreneurship and Unemployment: is Portugal an Outlier?

Baptista, Rui; Thurik, Roy - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … of entrepreneurship may be different in the Portuguese case, due to a high proportion of "micro-businesses" created for …

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