business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started …

Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …

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

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 develops a search and matching model of equilibrium unemployment, with on-the-job search, extended to both … the informal sector and entrepreneurship. Three are the key features of this model: the entrepreneurial ability affects … large, an increase in labour market tightness increases the unemployment rate and then the ‘vacancies-unemployment …

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

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three … between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. Key assumptions are that … contribute to growth. Underground employment alleviates unemployment only if the monitoring rate is sufficiently low. …

A matching model will explain both unemployment and economic growth by considering the underground sector. Three … between underground employment and unemployment, and (iii) between growth and unemployment. The key assumptions adopted are … underground firms, employ unskilled labour, and do not contribute to growth. Underground employment alleviates unemployment only …

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use …

-up because they did not choose to become entrepreneurs out of free will, but out of long-term unemployment or a lack of better …