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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
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Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low selfemployment rate. Empirical evidence...
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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...
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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763528
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Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Wießner, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Die Ich-AG (Existenzgründungszuschuss) war eines der zentralen Instrumente, das im Rahmen der "Hartz-Reformen" in den arbeitsmarktpolitischen Kanon aufgenommen wurde. Zusammen mit dem bereits seit langem bekannten Überbrückungsgeld wurden damit zwischen 2003 und 2006 mehr als eine Million...
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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...
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The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of … major topic in evaluation research in recent years, we will also assess the ability of each estimator to deal with it …
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
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