This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey … entrepreneurship in services has grown the fastest and employs the most. Service and female entrepreneurship seem to be on the increase … the aching unemployment problem in Finland. Public finance and other services seem to reach starting entrepreneurs poorly …

be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near … information contained in Google search queries, the report compares a simple predictive model of unemployment to a model that … future unemployment 3 months ahead. Google search queries also tend to improve the prediction accuracy around turning points …

employed. The idea is to compare the difference between the net income from market work and the unemployment benefits that have …