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The relationship between unemployment and self-employment has been studied extensively. Due to its complex, multifaceted nature, various scholars have found a large array of different results, so that the exact nature of the relation is still not clear. An important element of the relation is captu...
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| 100 | |a Congregado, Emilio | ||
| 245 | |a The |c Congregado, Emilio. | ||
| 260 | |c 2012 | ||
| 300 | |a 325-342 | ||
| 520 | |a The relationship between unemployment and self-employment has been studied extensively. Due to its complex, multifaceted nature, various scholars have found a large array of different results, so that the exact nature of the relation is still not clear. An important element of the relation is captured by the recession-push hypothesis which states that in times of high unemployment individuals are pushed into self-employment for lack of alternative sources of income such as paid employment. We make two contributions to this literature. First, we argue that official unemployment rates may not capture the | ||
| 650 | |a Unemployment | ||
| 650 | |a Self-Employment | ||
| 650 | |a Entrepreneurship | ||
| 650 | |a Non-Linear | ||
| 650 | |a Cointegration | ||
| 773 | |a International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal |d September | ||
| 999 | |c 41818 |d 41818 | ||