Using the relaxation of last-in-first-out (LIFO) seniority rule in Sweden as an exogenous shock to unemployment risks …, we show that employees facing increased unemployment risks are more likely to become entrepreneurs. The effect is more … performance of their ventures, we find the entrepreneurs who were exposed to more unemployment risks are better-off financially in …

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 …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

find that higher unemployment insurance (UI) benefits both lower the probability that an unemployed person will become self …

The main purpose of this study is to determine the relations between unemployment and entrepreneurship in Turkey. Thus … show that there is an inverse relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment. Accordingly, when the rate of … entrepreneurship increases, unemployment decreases or vice versa. Causality is from entrepreneurship to unemployment. In other words …

entrepreneurship, GNI, GDP and unemployment rate. The paper studies the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth and unemployment … 2005-2011. The main intention is to formally evaluate the impact of entrepreneurship on both unemployment rate and economic … comparables measures how entrepreneurship affects economic growth and unemployment on MENA countries. We therefore try to append …

unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ratio. To understand the sources of these … matches, and calibrate it to match all transition rates between wage employment, unemployment and self-employment as well as … that labor market frictions affect self-employment as much as unemployment. Labor market frictions also reduce aggregate …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

, particularly when households have few liquid assets. Motivated by these findings, I embed endogenous unemployment risk in a two … for aggregate shocks due to a flight-to-liquidity that occurs when unemployment risk rises. This mechanism implies that …In this paper, I show that the decline in household consumption during unemployment spells depends on both liquid and …

the impact of uncertainty shocks on unemployment dynamics. Using a vector autoregression approach, we show that … uncertainty shocks measured by stock market volatility have a significant impact on the U.S. unemployment rate. We then develop a …