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 …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

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

context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to … unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured. To disentangle moral hazard from adverse selection we use an institutional … featureof the Danish unemployment system that provides an additional motive to choose insurance(an early retirement option). We …

We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among …

The main contribution of entrepreneurship theory to economics is to provide an account of market performance in …

the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …

We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR … with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes … shocks play adominant role in explaining unemployment also in the medium-run. Moreoverreal wages have low sensitivity to …

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …