Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as … effectiveness of two start-up programs in East Germany. Our findings – even though partly preliminary – are rather promising …

notoriously low selfemployment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of the … present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes for the unemployed. Our outcome …