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Does Self-Employment Reduce Unemployment?

This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. Empirical results confirm two distinct relationships between unemployment and self-employment, i.e. "refugee" and "entrepreneurial" effects.

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