States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …

with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …

business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …

harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …

unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market … important factor explaining the shift in US relative unemployment. Our finding of the central importance of these interactions … relative unemployment has fallen in recent years in part because its more flexible labor market institutions allow shocks to …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …