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 …

those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …

) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations …

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 …