conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that … opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market …

This study analyzes whether economic conditions at the time of labor market entry affect entrepreneurship, using …. Those results are consistent with additional findings that higher unemployment rates at time of graduation significantly …

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional … distinguish between two directions of causality. On the one hand increases in self-employment may contribute to lower unemployment … rates (the ‘entrepreneurial’ effect). On the other hand, higher unemployment rates may push individuals into self …

which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment... … "Entrepreneurship, Regional Development and Job Creation: The Case of Portugal" by R. Baptista, V. Escárta and P. Madruga, MPI #0605, in …

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand …, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may … indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods. These two effects have resulted in …

outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature …The present paper examines the relationship between entrepreneurship, as measured by the variation in business … ownership rates, and unemployment in Portugal in the period from 1972-2002. It concludes that Portugal has been a relative …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …