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 …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It … generates a "Great Divergence", that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial … revolution, followed by a "Great Convergence", that is decreasing world inequality after the take-off of the latecomers of the …

urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide … thresholds of urbanization. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across countries through fixed effects and using a variety … of spatial econometric techniques, we find a robust association between earlier urbanization and agro …

The negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the job openings rate, known as the Beveridge curve, has … openings, the U.S. unemployment rate has not declined in line with the Beveridge curve. We decompose the recent deviation from …

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment …