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 …

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

entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to work, become entrepreneurs, or work in one of the two sectors … entrepreneurship in the United States. …

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 …

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 …

mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed … entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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 …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …

up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is …