Arbeitspapier
Business Ownership and Unemployment in Japan
The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor underestimation of the rise in unemployment in Japan in the period 1984-2002. Arguments are brought forward why this might be the case. We argue that small firms in Japan have benefitted in the past from the protective environment of the keiretsu structure. In the current process of industrial restructuring, keiretsu support is dissipating, but has not yet been adequatly replaced with a market environment conducive to the establishment and growth of entrepreneurial firms. The underestimation of the rise in unemployment is a reflection of the limited access of small firms to the market in Japan.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 04-036/3
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices
New Firms; Startups
Economic Development: General
Economywide Country Studies: Asia including Middle East
- Thema
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Entrepreneurship
business ownership
unemployment
industrial structure
Japan
Unternehmen
Eigentümerstruktur
Arbeitslosigkeit
Japan
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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van Acht, Joost
Stam, Joop
Thurik, Roy
Verheul, Ingrid
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
- (wo)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (wann)
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- van Acht, Joost
- Stam, Joop
- Thurik, Roy
- Verheul, Ingrid
- Tinbergen Institute
Entstanden
- 2004
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