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 …

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 …

actors escaping unemployment by setting up a business (necessity entrepreneurship). Nascent entrepreneurship can indeed be …Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business … cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with …

contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We discuss …

Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25 European Union member states and the United States. The most surprising of …

models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present … paper it is shown that – when this variable is added - in all models there is a significant influence of entrepreneurship … while the remaining effects mainly stay the same. Entrepreneurship is measured as the business ownership rate (number of …