Unemployment as a driver of entrepreneurship in Eastern and Western Germany
研究了德国经济上行期失业对创业的推动作用，发现农村地区失业推动创业效应更强，且西德比东德更明显，这与政策偏好差异有关。
This article investigates regional variation in the unemployment push in Germany during economic upswings. Using a dataset of 1.2 million business formations in an eight-year period, we analyse regional variation in the urban–rural dichotomy and differentiate between regions in capitalist Western and those in the formerly socialist Eastern Germany and account for regions’ economic situations. The intensity of the unemployment push increases with the level of rurality, and there is a stronger unemployment push in Western than in Eastern Germany. The latter can be attributed to differences in policy preferences regarding state reliance as tested by using voting patterns.