“…Using a cross-country panel of 22 OECD countries from 1972 to2007 Koellinger and Thurik (2012) find that the entrepreneurial cycle is positively affected by the national unemployment cycle Congregado et al (2012),), Fritsch et al (2015,. andKonon et al (2018) report evidence of overall counter-cyclical entrepreneurship rates in Spain, the U.K., and Germany.2 The terms "pull" vs "push" entrepreneurship (e.g.,Storey 1991;Ritsilä and Tervo 2002), "disadvantaged" entrepreneurship, and "innovative" entrepreneurship have also been used in the previous literature to express roughly similar ideas.3 For recent examples of this voluminous literature, see for exampleWennekers et al (2005),Bergmann and Sternberg (2007),Ho and Wong (2007),Van Stel et al (2007),Acs and Amorós (2008),Bjørnskov and Foss (2008), McMullen et al (2008),Block and Koellinger (2009),Block and Sandner (2009), Kritikos (2009, 2010),Koellinger and Minniti (2009),Stephen et al (2009),Block and Wagner (2010),Kautonen and Palmroos (2010),Stephan and Uhlaner (2010),Terjesen and Amorós (2010),Giacomin et al (2011), Pinillos andReyes (2011),Serida and Morales (2011),Dawson and Henley (2012),Nissan et al (2012),Fossen and Buettner (2013),Van der Zwang et al (2016), andCalderon et al (2017).…”