fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission …-equation unemployment rate models... …

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 …