what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only …

macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of … downturn, with an approximately 0.7 percentage point increase for each one percentage point rise in the unemployment rate … percentage point increase in the regional unemployment rate leading to an up to 0.8 percent decrease in consumption. …