Arbeitspapier

Does Entrepreneurship reduce Unemployment?

In this paper, we develop two hypotheses: First, regional innovation efforts have a positive impact on regional knowledge based entrepreneurial activity. Second, knowledge based entrepreneurship positively affects regional economic performance. We test these hypotheses using county level data from West Germany, employing a structural equation model to analyze the relationships between latent variables. Our empirical analysis provides evidence supporting both hypotheses. In particular, our results suggest that innovation efforts have an indirect effect on economic performance via entrepreneurship. This indirect effect is neglected in existing empirical studies focusing on the direct effect of innovation on economic performance.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 01-074/3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
New Firms; Startups
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Thema
entrepreneurship
unemployment
economic development
Gibrat's Law
Entrepreneurship-Ansatz
Arbeitslosigkeit
Beschäftigungseffekt
OECD-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Audretsch, D.B.
Carree, M.A.
Thurik, A.R.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2001

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Audretsch, D.B.
  • Carree, M.A.
  • Thurik, A.R.
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2001

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