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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008

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 …

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Job search requirements for older unemployed : transitions to employment, early retirement and disability benefits

Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Lammers, Marloes - 2012 - This version: October 2012

In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the...

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Carrot and stick : how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2016

minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …

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The use of spatial filtering techniques : the spatial and space-time structure of German unemployment data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

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Does entrepreneurship reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, … - 2001

In this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data...

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Does entrepreneurship reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Thurik, … - 2001

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Life satisfaction differences between workers and non-workers : the value of participation per se

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2001

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Forecasting changing seasonal components in German and US unemployment using periodic correlations

Franses, Philip Hans - 1995

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