-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …

(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 …