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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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Agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship: testing for spatial externalities in the Dutch ICT industry

Oort, Frank G. van; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005

the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature …. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations and measures of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship …

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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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