Does self-employment reduce unemployment?

By Roy Thurik, Martin A. Carree, André van Stel, David B. Audretsch. 2005

796 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. J. Hessels
2. Roy Thurik
3. Stephan F. Gohmann
4. Peter van der Zwan
5. M. van Gelderen
6. Isabel Grilo
7. Piers Thompson
8. L. Uhlaner

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Roy Thurik
2. J. Hessels
3. Stephan F. Gohmann
4. M. van Gelderen
5. Peter van der Zwan
6. Piers Thompson
7. Isabel Grilo
8. L. Uhlaner

Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurship, regional development and job creation: the case of Portugal (2007, background): “Results Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy 3 from recent research (Audretsch et al., 2001; Audretsch and Fritsch, 2002; Van Stel and Storey, 2004; and Fritsch and Mueller, 2004) suggest that the ambiguous evidence on the relationship between new firm formation and both…”
• National Business Regulations and City Entrepreneurship in Europe: A Multilevel Nested Analysis (2018, neutral): “Level of economic development has non-linear association with city level entrepreneurship (Thurik et al. 2008).”
• Postmaterialism influencing total entrepreneurial activity across nations (2006, background): “Audretsch, Carree, Thurik and van Stel (2005) assume a two-way causation between changes in the level of self-employment and that of unemployment -- a “Schumpeter” effect of entrepreneurship reducing unemployment and a “refugee” or “shopkeeper” effect of unemployment stimulating self-employment.”
• Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries (2009, background): “Rather, it is a good proxy for entrepreneurial activity (see Thurik et al. 2009 ) and can be interpreted to some extent as a measure of entrepreneurial potential.”
• Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle (2012, neutral): “The results are mixed and often indirect in the entrepreneurship literature (Thurik et al., 2008; Congregado et al., 2009).”
• The entrepreneurship research in hospitality and tourism (2019, background): “While higher unemployment stimulates entrepreneurial activities (Thurik et al., 2008), low rates of economic growth may prevent business start-ups, which leads to higher levels of unemployment (Bosma and Schutjens, 2011).”
• Serial entrepreneurship: impact of human capital on time to re-entry (2011, background): “As individuals’ decisions to enter and exit entrepreneurship may be influenced by the unemployment level (Carree et al. 2007; Audretsch et al. 2005 ), a control variable for unemployment is also included, thus accounting for the macroeconomic environment.”
• The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success (2014, neutral): “This variable may be negatively associated with entrepreneurial performance, as it increases necessity entrepreneurship but decreases opportunity entrepreneurship (Thurik et al., 2008).”
• Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery (2015, background): “Others, however, suggest a negative relationship as weaker demand conditions result in those locations with lower unemployment experiencing a ‘prosperity pull’ (Storey and Johnson, 1987), although empirical studies provide mixed evidence (Thurik et al., 2008).”