supply due to the generous allowances for marginal employment under the current and the planned regulations of unemployment … Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty … as well as increasing employment rates of recipients of social assistance. On the basis of a behavioral microsimulation …

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way outof (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemploymentand previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis …

-benefit system and net household incomes, also taking into account potential employment effects as well as indirect effects on …