opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …

This article introduces the special issue on Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle, comprising articles presented at … the workshop Good Times Bad Times: Entrepreneurship and the Cycle, held at the University of Valencia in November 2011 …. The workshop was organized to share insights about the under-researched issue of the interplay between entrepreneurship …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …