Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship
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Authors:
Røed, Knut and Jens Fredrik Skogstrøm
Year:
2014
Reference:
28(4), 430-448Summary
Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship, as well as subsequent earnings levels. We find that both the employment and entrepreneurship hazards rise sharply in response to UI sanctions and UI exhaustion. On average, transitions to entrepreneurship are more profitable than transitions to regular employment. While employment transitions are highly pro-cyclical, entrepreneurship transitions are weakly counter-cyclical. ALMPs targeted at entrepreneurship are rare in Norway, but the few start-up subsidies that are provided are successful in terms of generating paid work.
Project:
Oppdragsgiver: Norges forskningsrådOppdragsgivers prosjektnr.: 201336
Frisch prosjekt: 6513 - Entrepreneurship and Gender in Norway - Entrepreneurship, Gender, and Social capital
