Does Unemployment Lead to Self-employment?

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Does Unemployment Lead to Self-employment?

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Meager, Nigel

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The currently burgeoning literature on the nature of and the causes for the recent reverse in the downward trend in self-employment in many developed economies, contains a somewhat inconclusive debate on the relationship between unemployment and self-employment, and whether self-employment fluctuates pro- or counter-cyclically. This paper reviews this literature, presents some recent evidence for EC countries, and argues that the approach in the previous research of searching for relationships between unemployment and self-employment stocks is fundamentally inappropriate. A new approach, based on an analysis of inflows to and outflows from self-employment, is called for. Copyright 1992 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Volume (Year): 4 (1992)
Issue (Month): 2 (June)
Pages: 87-103
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