differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban Scotland were overcrowded than in the rest of Britain …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

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

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

The beginning of the employment career is often associated with phases of unemployment. We argue that unemployment has … UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search … and rigid labour market in Germany creates a stigma attached to unemployment and therefore might have negative …

unemployment. In addition, allowance is also made to accommodate the ?stayer? phenomenon in the state of employment. All these were …