's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

twice as likely to enter self-employment from unemployment as from paid employment. Furthermore, almost 22% of workers exit … transitions between the labor market states of unemployment, paid employment, and self-employment. The self-employed fall into two …

A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship … entrepreneurship and a different measure of wealth - net housing equity - for the two groups. Second, we examine the liquidity … probability of entrepreneurship by 17 percent and that the effect is not concentrated at the upper tail of the distribution. These …

causes of the unemployment upturn in 1973-1983 and the subsequent decline in 1993-2006. Our results show that (i) the main … determinants of the unemployment rise in the 1970s and early 1980s were wage-push factors, the two oil price shocks and the … increase in interest rates, and (ii) the acceleration in capital accumulation was the crucial driving force of unemployment in …

newcomers. This social phenomenon and affects wages and unemployment. We show that the growth in the unemployment and social …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …