How sensitive is the business ownership rate to unemployment fluctuations? Evidence of asymmetries in a panel of 23 OECD countries

How sensitive is the business ownership rate to unemployment fluctuations? Evidence of asymmetries in a panel of 23 OECD countries

In this article, we try to test whether the relationship running from unemployment to entrepreneurship/self-employment – the so-called ‘recession-push’ hypothesis – is affected asymmetrically by dynamic labour market conditions. To this end, we employ a panel threshold regression model into which n...

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Main Authors: Mónica Carmona Arango, Emilio Congregado Ramírez de Aguilera, Antonio A. Golpe Moya, Jesús Iglesias Garrido
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Huelva 2015-02-01
Series:Revista de Economía Mundial
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Keywords
entrepreneurship
self-employment
unemployment
recession-push
business cycles
Online Access:https://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/REM/article/view/3935

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