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T1 Does self-employment reduce unemployment? A contribution from the franchise system
T2 ¿El autoempleo reduce el desempleo? Aportaciones desde la franquicia
A1 Calderón Monge, Esther
A1 Huerta Zavala, Pilar Angélica
K1 Signals Theory
K1 Franchise
K1 Entrepreneurship
K1 Self-employement
K1 Unemployement
K1 Panel Data methodology
K1 GMM
K1 Teoría de Señales
K1 Franquicia
K1 Emprendedurismo
K1 Autoempleo
K1 Desempleo
K1 Metodología de Datos de Panel
K1 GMM
K1 Franquicias
K1 Franchises (Retail trade)
AB Franchising, considered as a way of starting up a business, contributes to create employment. Because of that, the aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of some macroeconomic variables economic growth and unemployment rate- and other franchise specific variables initial investment and up-front franchise fees in the decision of franchising a system outlet during the period 2000 2009. To reach this objective we chose a sample of 352 franchise systems that operate in the Spanish market using panel data methodology. The results concluded that initial investment and up-front franchise fees are signals received by franchisees as franchisors want them to be perceived. In addition, they support the decision by unemployed workers to franchise outlets in the period under study. Theory of Signals and Panel Data methodology are the relevant aspects in this paper.
PB ESIC University
SN 0212-1867
YR 2011
FD 2011-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11060
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11060
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 12-may-2026