producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …

also some evidence that more flexibility leads to lower unemployment rates and to lower rates of long-term unemployment … introduce more unemployment persistence. …

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher … rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …