; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

our simple calculations, each year's subsidy program created jobs in grant winning firms equivalent to 0.3-0.5 percent of …

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 …