Vancea, MihaelaUtzet Sadurní, Mireia2025-01-202025-01-202017Vancea M, Utzet M. Does unemployment and precarious employment lead to increasing entrepreneurial intentions among young people? Results from a survey-based study in Spain. Central European Business Review. 2017 Jun 30;6(2):5-17. DOI: 10.18267/j.cebr.1761805-4854http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69186The article explores the relationship between unemployment and precarious employment, and young people's entrepreneurial intentions in Spain. We focus on the effects of employment conditions and experience on young people's intentions to start their own business or become self-employed. The role of socio-demographic characteristics and behavioral factors such as perceived self-efficacy and desirability as well as risk taking were also analyzed. The analyses were based on a cross-sectional representative sample, corresponding to the year 2016, of Spanish working young individuals aged 18 to 35 years (n=1.678). All analyses were stratified by gender. The results show that besides behavioral attitudinal factors that seem to particularly influence the entrepreneurial intentions of Spanish young people, having a precarious contract or being unemployed for more than six months cannot be regarded as necessity-driven factors for increasing intentions toward entrepreneurship. Instead, well educated, experienced and economically stable women are more likely to engage in entrepreneurial activity than men.application/pdfengThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC ND 4.0), which permits non-comercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is properly cited. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.cebr.176Precarious employmentUnemploymentEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurial intentionsYoung peopleSpaininfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess