Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97317 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1924
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional differences in unemployment rates, but also in unemployment duration and the human capital of the unemployed-i.e. in the structure of regional unemployment-into account. Both, the skill structure of the unemployed and the share of long-term unemployment are found to have an important impact on regional start-up activity. Moreover, the impact of unemployment structure on new firm formation is found to vary with the knowledge-intensity of the start-ups.
Subjects: 
regional unemployment
new business formation
skill structure
long-term unemployment
JEL: 
M13
R12
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.