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dc.contributor.authorAudretsch, David B.en
dc.contributor.authorCarree, Martin A.en
dc.contributor.authorvan Stel, André J.en
dc.contributor.authorThurik, A. Royen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:10:10Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:10:10Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/19998-
dc.description.abstractThis 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 considerable ambiguities about the interrelationship between unemployment and entrepreneurial activity. This paper introduces a two-equation vector autoregression model capable of reconciling these ambiguities and tests it for data of 23 OECD countries over the period 1974-2002. The empirical results confirm the two distinct relationships between unemploy-ment and self-employment, i.e. "refugee" and "entrepreneurial" effects. We also find that the "entrepreneu-rial" effects are considerably stronger than the "refugee" effects.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aMax Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems |cJenaen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aPapers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy |x0705en
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/110993en
dc.subject.jelM13en
dc.subject.jelL11en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordentrepreneurshipen
dc.subject.keywordGibrat's Lawen
dc.subject.keywordself-employmenten
dc.subject.keywordunemploymenten
dc.subject.stwSelbstständigeen
dc.subject.stwBeschäftigungseffekten
dc.subject.stwArbeitslosigkeiten
dc.subject.stwVAR-Modellen
dc.subject.stwOECD-Staatenen
dc.titleDoes self-employment reduce unemployment?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn494667567en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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