Entrepreneurship and unemployment in Spain: a regional analysis
- 13 April 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Applied Economics Letters
- Vol. 22 (15), 1230-1235
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2015.1021450
Abstract
Self-employment is usually associated with entrepreneurship and it is often promoted as a way of reducing unemployment. Our aim in this article is to analyse the relationship between self-employment and unemployment taking into account its spatial dimension. The entrepreneur activity in each region depends not only on its own endowment but the entrepreneurship environment may be exerted some influence. Regional Spanish data are used to obtain evidence about this relationship using a Spatial Durbin model to embed the spatial dimension. The results reveal that both the direct and indirect effects are relatively small. Further, if unemployment increases in a region, self-employment decreases. However, if unemployment grows in neighbouring regions, incentives for entering self-employment increase, implying that there is a ‘refugee’ effect (self-employment as an answer to the lack of wage employment).Keywords
This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
- Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry—evidence from GermanyInternational Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2014
- Comovement Between Self-Employment and Macroeconomic VariablesSage Open, 2012
- Is entrepreneurship a leading or lagging indicator of the business cycle? Evidence from UK self-employment dataInternational Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 2012
- The ‘recession-push’ hypothesis reconsideredInternational Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2011
- Entrepreneurship, creative industries and regional dynamics in SpainThe Annals of Regional Science, 2010
- Why does the effect of new business formation differ across regions?Small Business Economics, 2010
- Entrepreneurs and Job Growth: Probing the Boundaries of Time and SpaceEconomic Development Quarterly, 2009
- Introduction to Spatial EconometricsPublished by Taylor & Francis Ltd ,2009
- New business formation and employment growth: some evidence for the Spanish manufacturing industrySmall Business Economics, 2007
- Employment Growth and Entrepreneurial Activity in CitiesRegional Studies, 2004