which the authors conclude (among others) that entrepreneurship creates jobs and reduces unemployment... …

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 …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. It uses an OECD-wide data set and the results of a … newly developed two-equation vector autoregressive model. 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 compared to other …

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 …

ownership rates, and unemployment in Portugal in the period from 1972-2002. It concludes that Portugal has been a relative … outlier in regard to the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment when compared with the OECD average. Although the nature … discrepancies. The differences between observed levels of unemployment for Portugal and those predicted by a model based on OECD …

enables to explicitly control for the influence of unemployment on the level of business ownership ('refugee effect'). We also …