Zur Existenzgründungsförderung für Arbeitslose steht mit dem Existenzgründungszuschuss ("Ich-AG") seit Anfang 2003 neben dem schon seit längerem bestehenden Überbrückungsgeld (ÜG) ein weiteres Förderinstrument für gründungswillige Arbeitslose zur Verfügung. Erste...

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...

Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect...