conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability … opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market …

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business …

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 …

individuals starting a business after a period of long-term unemployment and those individuals with a lack of better employment …

been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …This paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship (as measured by fluctuations in the business ownership … rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has …

-up because they did not choose to become entrepreneurs out of free will, but out of long-term unemployment or a lack of better …

individuals starting a business after a period of long-term unemployment and those individuals with a lack of better employment …

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher … rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …

Unemployment and proprietorship can be related in several ways. As unemployment increases, individuals with fewer job … unemployment is the result of a depressed economy, higher unemployment may lead to less demand for the products and services of … businesses grow. This can potentially reduce unemployment in the long run. We apply a panel vector autoregressive model to …

With the economic crisis acknowledged in 2008, unemployment strongly increased – mostly due to the fall in the …