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 … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth. Unemployment in South Africa is presently at about 25 … challenge. Entrepreneurship, through the creation of new ventures and expansion of business firms, can make a difference to … the entrepreneurial environmental conditions in South Africa and then examines how entrepreneurship can make a difference …

This paper examines the nature of the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth in the West Bank of the … evidence the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth; second, to explore the effect of two control variables on the … GDP and unemployment. The results show that contrary to a reservoir of research, entrepreneurship appeared to have no …

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

This article introduces the special issue on Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle, comprising articles presented at … the workshop Good Times Bad Times: Entrepreneurship and the Cycle, held at the University of Valencia in November 2011 …. The workshop was organized to share insights about the under-researched issue of the interplay between entrepreneurship …