This paper aims to examine the economic impact of the implementation of an unemployment insurance (UI) program for … for entrepreneurs would impact the economy using a model of entrepreneurship based on a search and matching framework. The … welfare compared to other social protection systems such as unemployment assistance. …

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 …

We present first evidence how individual risk preferences shape entrepreneurial investment among the very wealthy using … standard measure of risk tolerance. We find that wealthy individuals are more likely to be entrepreneurs and invest a larger … ways strongly determined by individual risk tolerance. Since the wealthy dominate aggregate risky investment, their risk …

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 …

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

We provide empirical evidence that uncertainty (rather than risk) and optimism are distinctive characteristics of high …

Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …

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 …

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 …