This paper reviews the results of studies that investigate the most important active labour market policy (ALMP … contributions to a country's growth and social welfare. The available evidence suggests that most ALMP measures increase labour …

models and applying fixed effects specifications. -- Employment protection ; small business ; worker flows …

than evaluating a single program, we estimate the impact of R&D subsidies on start-ups’ employment growth and their patent … subsidized and non-subsidized start-ups. We find that R&D subsidies lead to an increase in employment growth of about 66 …

We investigate regional differences in the contribution of newly founded businesses to regional employment. This is … labeled the direct employment effect of new businesses. The analysis is at the spatial level of West German planning regions … for the period 1984-2002. We find rather pronounced differences for the direct employment effect across regions …

(2006) by investigating the development of employment in German start-up co-horts for the period 1976 to 2004. We confirm … high risk of failure. Although only the largest 25% of the surviving entries grow in terms of employment, after 25 years … the number of employees in these relatively large businesses strongly declines. -- Employment change ; new firms ; start …

Recent empirical research has found that the effect of new business formation on employment emerges over a period of … of new business formation on employment change into direct and indirect effects. The results indicate that indirect … regional differences of the employment change generated by new business formation can to a large part be explained by …

sectoral employment for 270 German labour market regions over the period 1999-2005. Our unique panel dataset includes … subsequent growth of employment in the Medical & Optical Equipment industry as well as in the Electrics & Electronics sector …. -- Innovation ; Agglomeration ; Employment …

employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and that this indirect effect on incumbent employment leads to more jobs …We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The …

Empirical analyses suggest that the employment creating effect of start-ups is highest in regions with a low level of … employment effect. In explaining these results, we assume that the average quality of regional start-ups decreases with the …