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 and 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, implying that it 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".
Author details: | Michael Fritsch, Alexander KritikosORCiDGND, Katharina Pijnenburg |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-014-0326-3 |
ISSN: | 1554-7191 |
ISSN: | 1555-1938 |
Title of parent work (English): | International entrepreneurship and management journal |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publishing: | New York |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Business cycle; Self-employment; Start-up; Unemployment |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 20 |
First page: | 267 |
Last Page: | 286 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |