been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4 …

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECD countries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative prior based on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben- efits and labour …: demand shocks play a dominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreover real wages have low …

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

individuals starting a business after a period of long-term unemployment and those individuals with a lack of better employment …

the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …This paper proposes that risk aversion encourages individuals to invest in balanced skill profiles, making them more …