attention has been paid to the role of networks and institutions in improving firm performance. By using data from the DANIDA … institutions on firm performance, particularly focusing on small and medium-sized businesses. Network data covers four dimensions …

(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 …

gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …