Entrepreneurship and unemployment nexus in MENA: Does institutional quality matter?
- 15 September 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Abstract
Entrepreneurship has been identified as a panacea to abating the rising unemployment rate in MENA. However, the region’s institutional quality could influence whether entrepreneurship would generate/stall employment. Thus, we examined the role of institutional quality in the entrepreneurship-unemployment nexus for seven MENA countries using the dynamic ordinary least square method to analyse data covering the period, 2006-2019. The results show that opportunity-driven entrepreneurship and total-early-stage entrepreneurship have the potential to reduce unemployment while institutional quality seems to augment the unemployment-reducing effect of entrepreneurship. This implies that promoting entrepreneurship and strengthening the institutional apparatuses in the MENA region should be prioritised.Keywords
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