2002 dürfte das portugiesische Bruttoinlandsprodukt nur etwa dem Volumen des Jahres 2001 entsprochen haben. Die Lage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wurde ungünstiger und die Arbeitslosigkeit nahm gegen Jahresende sprunghaft zu (5% im Jahresdurchschnitt). Die Konsumentenpreise lagen um 3,7% über dem...

2002 dürfte das portugiesische Bruttoinlandsprodukt nur etwa dem Volumen des Jahres 2001 entsprochen haben. Die Lage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wurde ungünstiger und die Arbeitslosigkeit nahm gegen Jahresende sprunghaft zu (5% im Jahresdurchschnitt). Die Konsumentenpreise lagen um 3,7% über dem...

This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The reduction in the capital stock depends on the degree of...

This paper examines the effects of tourism in a dynamic model of trade on unemployment, capital accumulation and resident welfare. A tourism boom improves the terms of trade, increases labor employment, but lowers capital accumulation. The reduction in the capital stock depends on the degree of...

The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of 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...

The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of 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...

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...