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Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can be investigated by observing the role of the underground economy in shaping the productivity of firms. Indeed, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt...
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A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three problems can thus be simultaneously accounted for: (i) the persistence of underground economy, (ii) the ambiguous relationships between underground employment and unemployment, and...
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The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …
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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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This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...
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"Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: The Case of Portugal" by R. Baptista, V. Escarta and P. Madruga, MPI, # 0605 …, in which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment. This extension … will be feasible by estimating the total economy´s entrepreneurship reward for Western European countries and relating it …
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entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for three separate years in twenty Western countries and Japan … costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a group of low-uncertainty avoidance …
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entrepreneurship, new business formation and a combination of the two, referred to as total entrepreneurial activity, as defined within … the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. The model is also tested for the rate of established businesses, as distinct from … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, World Values Survey and other published sources. Findings confirm the significance of post …
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intersecting data available from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, World Values Survey and other published sources. Findings …
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unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of …
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