. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily …

and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of …