Challenging the ‘refugee effect’
(2013) NEKH01 20131Department of Economics
- Abstract
- This essay examines the relation between unemployment and self-employment using panel data covering all 27 European Union member states. The European Union contains of highly heterogeneous economies. A certain degree of heterogeneity is also prevalent within the group ‘self-employed’.
The hypothesis tested in this essay is stating that unemployment leads to self-employment in accordance with the ‘refugee’-thesis. This hypothesis is rejected on an over-all trend basis following a series of established regressions using robustness checks. Instead a negative relationship between self-employment and unemployment is captured, opposing the ‘refugee’-thesis. These results are confirmed when restricting the sample to the countries with the... (More) - This essay examines the relation between unemployment and self-employment using panel data covering all 27 European Union member states. The European Union contains of highly heterogeneous economies. A certain degree of heterogeneity is also prevalent within the group ‘self-employed’.
The hypothesis tested in this essay is stating that unemployment leads to self-employment in accordance with the ‘refugee’-thesis. This hypothesis is rejected on an over-all trend basis following a series of established regressions using robustness checks. Instead a negative relationship between self-employment and unemployment is captured, opposing the ‘refugee’-thesis. These results are confirmed when restricting the sample to the countries with the highest unemployment rates year 2012. Smaller evidence for the ‘refugee’-effect is found when excluding the countries with the highest proportion of workers in agriculture from the analysis. (Less)
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- author
- Macheridis, Konstantin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKH01 20131
- year
- 2013
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Self-employment, unemployment, refugee effect, labor economics
- language
- English
- id
- 3813952
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- 2013-06-20 10:31:56
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