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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...
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While a growing body of literature finds positive impacts of Start-Up Subsidies (SUS) on labor market outcomes of participants, little is known about how the design of these programs shapes their effectiveness and hence how to improve policy. As experimental variation in program design is...
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only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation … heterogeneous. -- Start-up subsidies ; self-employment ; unemployment ; direct employment effects ; survival …
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-employment. -- Self-employment ; state dependence ; labor market dynamics ; unemployment …
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, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously … unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …
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. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a … be seen how future governments react to worsened economic conditions in light of these experiences. -- Unemployment …
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The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …
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effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …
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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 …
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