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... …

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 …

, earning differentials between employees and self-employedworkers, unemployment rates and value added per capita account for 40 …

than others. Moreover, self-employment is often chosen to escape unemployment,not for the associated autonomy that seems to … increasein life satisfaction (up to two years later), while individuals moving from unemployment toself-employment are not more …

conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that … areinitially not employed respond more to high local unemployment rates by starting businessesthan wage/salary workers. The results … higher levels of businesscreation. Using the regression estimates for the local unemployment rate effects, I find thatthe …