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 …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …

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 …

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere …

Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The … current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility …