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 effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

(ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training … unemployed individuals to exit unemployment by entering self-employment and, thus, by creating their own jobs. In this sense … combat unemployment but also as business policy to promote entrepreneurship. The corresponding empirical literature on this …

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 …

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

Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many …

who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …

and firm development. While firm survival seems to be negatively affected by foundation from unemployment, especially in …