unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …

typically less innovative self-employed entrepreneurship. The paper sets out to estimate the net effect of the various elements …

self-employment, often associated with necessity-driven entrepreneurship. The study concludes that innovation positively …

commentators have argued that the subsequent rise in unemployment exceeded previous estimates of the elasticity of the unemployment …-term estimate of Okun’s coefficient implying that the deviation in unemployment during the crisis resulted from a larger output gap … period utilized. Focusing more on short-term fluctuations, changes in unemployment are decomposed to identify the association …

: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …