exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of …

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed … creation schemes, or wage subsidies – the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such schemes is still scarce; especially … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere …

market prospects compared to other unemployed individuals. However, the examination of start-up subsidies from a business … expected deadweight losses related to start-up subsidies occur on a (much) lower scale than usually assumed …

Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the … empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a …