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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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 …

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The Contribution of Business Ownership in Bringing Down Unemployment in Japan

Stel, Andre van; Baljeu, Lendert; Thurik, Roy; Verheul, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

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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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Roy; Stel, Andre van; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2006

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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Creative Unemployment

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use …

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