Research on entrepreneurship often uses information on self-employment to proxy for business creation and innovative … Survey (CIS) to study the relation between self-employment, business creation and innovation. In order to do so, we aggregate … individual and firm-level data at the Travel-to-Work Area (TTWA) and investigate how the incidence of self-employment correlates …

We study the link between self-employment and some salient aspects of entrepreneurship – namely business creation and … aggregated at the Travel-to-Work Area level. We find that a higher incidence of self-employment positively and strongly … not evident when focussing on entrepreneurship. Finally, we show that the misalignment between self-employment and our …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United …