status of migrants, the nature of self-employment and job history information are analyzed in terms of their relationship to …

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only …

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (longterm) unemployment significantly increases …

. For both men and women those who enter from unemployment or inactivity are less successful in terms of income and the … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …