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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319509
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775587
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451199
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500310
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Getting back into the labor market: The effects of start-up subsidies for unemployed females
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287711
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10008592864
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Subsidized Start-Ups out of Unemployment: A Comparison to Regular Business Start-Ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235064
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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 selfemployment rate. Empirical evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761814
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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822210
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Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156472