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Impeded industrial restructuring: The growth penalty

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J. - 2000

This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greater share of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...

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Uncertainty Avoidance and the Rate of Business Ownership across 22 OECD Countries, 1976-2000

Wennekers, Sander; Thurik, A. Roy; van Stel, André J.; … - 2005

entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for three separate years in twenty Western countries and Japan … costs of entrepreneurship are the dominant perception in this cultural environment. In a group of low-uncertainty avoidance …

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Self-employment and unemployment in Spanish regions in the period 1979-2001

Golpe, Antonio A.; van Stel, André J. - 2007

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J. - 2005

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

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The role of dissatisfaction and per capita income in explaining self-employment across 15 European countries

Noorderhaven, Niels; Thurik, A. Roy; Wennekers, Sander; … - 2004

This paper deals with explaining the sizable differences in the rate of self-employment (business ownership) across 15 European countries in the period 1978-2000, within a framework of occupational choice, focusing on the influence of dissatisfaction and of per capita income. Using two different...

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The link between firm births and job creation: Is there a Upas Tree effect?

van Stel, André J.; Storey, David J. - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between firm births and job creation in Great Britain. We use a new data set for 60 British regions, covering the whole of Great Britain, between 1980 and 1998. The relationship between new-firm startups and employment growth has previously been examined...

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Explaining female and male entrepreneurship at the country level

Verheul, Ingrid; van Stel, André J.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2005

Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries this study investigates the (differential) impact of … several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level. These factors are derived from three streams of … literature, including that on entrepreneurship in general, on female labor force participation and on female entrepreneurship …

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Innovation, strategic renewal and its effect on small firm performance

Folkeringa, Mickey; Meijaard, Joris; van Stel, André J. - 2005

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between strategic renewal and the performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees). We use a panel of micro data on about 1000 Dutch firms. The dataset contains information on aspects of strategic renewal, including process innovation and...

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The contribution of business ownership in bringing down unemployment in Japan

van Stel, André J.; Thurik, A. Roy; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2006

The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …

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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

Thurik, A. Roy; Carree, Martin A.; van Stel, André J.; … - 2007

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unem-ployment 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...

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