destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … downturns have more adverse implications for vulnerable segments of the population such as youth. As presented in this paper … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

stability, and for maximisation of its labour resources. Existing initiatives – including soft-skills and entrepreneurship … hope to youth who become stuck in cycles of precarious work, by extending the meritocratic idea that individual hard work … shortages in secure white-collar work, as well as inequalities in access to capital, education and social connections, instead …

example, unemployment, taxes and education (as a proxy of knowledge). … entrepreneurship is one of the elements that could positively contribute to this growth. Among other factors, both entrepreneurship and … relationship between economic growth, knowledge and entrepreneurship within the context of Latin American countries during the …

knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic … particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

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 …

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

variables, i.e. sex, age, and education)? And given the personal characteristics and attitudes, how does the regional … 'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …