【摘要】Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity?Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades, the answersyielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach thattakes not only interregional differences in unemployment rates, but also in unemploymentduration and the human capital of the unemployed, that is, in the structure of regional unem-ployment into account. Both, the skill structure of the unemployed and the share of long-termunemployment are found to have an important impact on regional start-up activity. Moreover,the impact of unemployment structure on new ?rm formation is found to vary with theknowledge-intensity of the start-ups.

【关键词】Regional unemployment;new business formation;skill structure;long-termunemployment

【文献来源】David B. Audretsch;Dirk Dohse and Annekatrin Niebuhr.Papers in Regional Studies.2015（1）