available - the 1996 to 2009 Current Population Survey (CPS) - are used to conduct a detailed analysis of the determinants of … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

of unemployment are not examined. Using Current Population Survey data matched across adjacent months from 1989 to 2004 … in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the business cycle. Any conclusion drawn from …, this paper provides the first detailed examination of labor market transitions for prime-age black and white men to test …