(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 …

Importance of Diffusion.- Globalization, Telecommunications and Diffusion.- Unemploy¤ment and Innovation in Europe: EU Labor ….- Labor Costs, Unemployment and Innovation: Labor Cost Pressure and¤ Unemployment.- Factors Underlying High Labor Costs … Incentives.- Firm Size, Productivity and Labor Cos¤ts.- Wage Pressure, Innovation, FDI and Unemployment.- Conclusions and Policy …