conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … 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 …

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business …

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 …

variables, i.e. sex, age, and education)? And given the personal characteristics and attitudes, how does the regional … 'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …

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

destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … downturns have more adverse implications for vulnerable segments of the population such as youth. As presented in this paper … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long …This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to …

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … ("education boom"), even when controlling for skill-biased technological change, reduce the unemployment of the more educated … countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects …