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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020
Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290514
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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300013
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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants: Merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300378
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319208
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957600
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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536039
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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants: Merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568335
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - 2011
immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … entrepreneurs. Firms owned exclusively by immigrants tend to be smaller and have higher exit rates. After controlling for resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304654
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Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance
Mueller, Elisabeth - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … entrepreneurs. Firms owned exclusively by immigrants tend to be smaller and have higher exit rates. After controlling for resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018227
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Matching of Individuals for Start-Ups: A Test of the O-Ring Theory
Müller, Bettina - 2008
In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298694