to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …

immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out … decreases the preference for immigrants. The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood in which one lives does not ex! ert a …

unemployment. …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …