entrepreneurship or the performance of entrepreneurs in the informal economy. Focusing on institutional heterogeneity, this paper … and both the propensity for entrepreneurship and the performance of entrepreneurs in the informal economy. …

As a case study on the status of women in the economics profession, this article analyzes the fascinating career of … Anne P. Carter. Prior to 1966 there were no women in the economics faculty at Harvard. In 1966 Carter became the first … Waltham, Massachusetts. The situation of women at Harvard was still not encouraging. In 1967 she was one of the first women to …

Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …

the 1989-2000 period. The share of women in total employment is declining in the sectors traditionally labeled for women … and increasing in the non-traditional sectors. Distribution of women employment is becoming more evenly spread across both … income are identified as important determinants of incidence of women employment. In recent years women's participation seems …

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …

between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key assumptions are that … contribute to growth. Underground employment alleviates unemployment only if the monitoring rate is sufficiently low. …A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three …

Development of methodology for deriving the monthly unemployment statistics directly from the quarterly Labour Force … employment policies, aiming to achieve the objectives of Europe 2020. Estimated monthly data series according to the methodology … allow assessment of short-term trends in unemployment measured according to the criteria of the International Labour …

We have modeled the employment/population ratio in the largest developed countries. Our results show that the evolution … of the employment rate since 1970 can be predicted with a high accuracy by a linear dependence on the logarithm of real … units. Statistically, the link between measured and predicted rate of employment is characterized by the coefficient of …

, the local human capital level reduces unemployment for both men and women. We also find that less educated workers …It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. We find that the local human capital …

seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force …, especially in developing regions. Elasticity of employment is low and falling further. Whatever little employment expansion is … market negatively. Employment growth and elasticities are lower in regions that have had rapid globalisation. Institutional …