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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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Getting Back into the Labor Market : The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women : Evidence from a Kink Design in Germany
Ye, Han - 2019
subsidy program for low-pay workers. The subsidies have a kinked relationship with the recipients' past contributions …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the ratio of behavioral to mechanical costs for this subsidy program is 0.3, which is smaller than that …
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...
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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies : Matching Estimates and Their Robustness
Caliendo, Marco - 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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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco - 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...
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 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/10013147125
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of participants, in particular compared to other active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search...
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment : Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2021
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 notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence...
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The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed
Bellmann, Lutz - 2017
current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility …
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