Endbericht eines von der Europäischen Kommission beauftragten Projektes zur Identifikation und Analyse von strukturellen Hindernissen, mit denen unselbstständig Beschäftigte konfrontiert sind, wenn sie sich selbstständig machen wollen. Darüber hinaus werden jene "best practices" in den...

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 been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the...

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate...