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Self-employment and unemployment in Spanish regions in the period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio A.; van Stel, André J. - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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High growth entrepreneurs, public policies and economic growth

Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, S. Jolanda A.; … - 2007

economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the … that ambitious entrepreneurship contributes more strongly to macro-economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general …. We find a particularly strong effect of high-expectation entrepreneurship for transition countries. These results are …

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Thurik, A. Roy; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J.; … - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unem-ployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased...

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