Arbeitspapier

Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany

We investigate whether people are more willing to become self-employed during boom periods or during recessions and to what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business formation is higher during recessions than in boom periods. This implies that new business formation is counter-cyclical. When disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only statistically significant if the level of unemployment is below the trend, indicating a low unemployment retain effect.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7852

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Thema
self-employment
business cycle
unemployment
start-up

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fritsch, Michael
Kritikos, Alexander S.
Pijnenburg, Katharina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2013

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fritsch, Michael
  • Kritikos, Alexander S.
  • Pijnenburg, Katharina
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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