Regional unemployment structure and new firm formation

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Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional differences in unemployment rates, but also in unemployment duration and the human capital of the unemployed-i.e. in the structure of regional unemployment-into account. Both, the skill structure of the unemployed and the share of long-term unemployment are found to have an important impact on regional start-up activity. Moreover, the impact of unemployment structure on new firm formation is found to vary with the knowledge-intensity of the start-ups.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1924

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; New Firms; Startups ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: regional unemployment ; new business formation ; skill structure ; long-term unemployment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Audretsch, David B. ; Dohse, Dirk ; Niebuhr, Annekatrin
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/97317
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET