We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Does Unemployment Lead to Self-Employment?
- Authors
Meager, Nigel
- Abstract
The currently burgeoning literature on the nature of and the causes for the recent reverse in the downward trend in self-employment in many developed economies, contains a somewhat inconclusive debate on the relationship between unemployment and self-employment, and whether self-employment fluctuates pro- or counter cyclically. This paper reviews this literature, presents some recent evidence for EC countries, and argues that the approach in the previous research of searching for relationships between unemployment and self-employment stocks is fundamentally inappropriate. A new approach, based on an analysis of inflows to and outflows from self-employment, is called for.
- Subjects
UNEMPLOYMENT; SELF-employment; STOCK transfer; STOCKS (Finance); EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT policy
- Publication
Small Business Economics, 1992, Vol 4, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
0921-898X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00389850