Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects …, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment … costeffective and efficient means of reducing unemployment, during both periods of economic stability and recovery. …

The relationship between entrepreneurship, measured by fluctuations in the business ownership rate, and unemployment in … Japan is examined for the period 1972-2002. We conclude that, although Japan's unemployment rate has been influenced by … different exogenous shocks as compared to other OECD countries, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not distinct …

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 increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …