pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but … employment. For labor the wage tax exacerbates this adverse effect.<P>This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A …

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

ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but … employment. For labor the wage tax exacerbates this adverse effect.<P> …

pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …