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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449690
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Do start-up subsidies for the unemployed affect participants' well-being? : a rigorous look at (un-)intended consequences of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2019
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136859
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Direct and indirect effects of subsidized dual apprenticeships
Crépon, Bruno; Premand, Patrick - 2019
subsidized apprentice. The subsidy offsets forgone labor earnings. Four years after the start of the experiment, treated youths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138826
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New evidence on long-term effects of start-up subsidies : matching estimates and their robustness
Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2019
The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its …-reform subsidy on individual employment prospects and labor market earnings up to 40 months after entering the program. Our results … suggest large and persistent long-term effects of the subsidy on employment probabilities and net earned income. These effects …
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Pension reform and the efficiency-equity trade-off : impacts of removing an early retirement subsidy
Andersen, Asbjørn Goul; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2020
We provide empirical evidence that the removal of work disincentives embedded in retirement earnings tests can increase old-age labor supply considerably, but it does so at the cost of more income inequality. Causal effects are identified based on a reform of the Norwegian early retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161348
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The effect of pension subsidies on retirement timing of older women : evidence from a regression kink design
Ye, Han - 2018
's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests the ratio of behavioral cost to mechanical cost of this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than other … subsidy program can account for one third of the increase in women's age of claiming pension over the past decade. …
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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
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Government grants, plant survival and employment growth : a micro-econometric analysis
Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Do government subsidies stimulate training expenditure? : Microeconometric evidence from plant level data
Görg, Holger (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We pay particular attention to the potential problems in such an evaluation study, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815923
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941759