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Essays on the transition from unemployment to employment with a special emphasis on start-up subsidies in Germany

Hogenacker, Jens Andreas - 2015

The promotion of self-employment as part of active labor market policies is considered to be one of the most important unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of start-up support schemes within ALMP. Chapter 2...

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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to increase their job-finding probabilities. To analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers...

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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : opportunities and limitations ; financial support during business start-up is an effective active labor market policy tool for escaping unem...

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many developed countries. Start-up subsidies can assist unemployed workers in setting up their own business. This option can be especially interesting for people whose work is...

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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Do start-up subsidies for the unemployed affect participants' well-being? : a rigorous look at (un-)intended consequences of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2019

We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...

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New evidence on long-term effects of start-up subsidies : matching estimates and their robustness

Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2019

. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post-reform … are larger than what was estimated for the pre-reform program. Extensive sensitivity analyses within the standard PSM … variation in the likelihood of receiving treatment. Here, we exploit the fact that the reform increased the discretionary power …

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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : New evaluation approaches and insights

Weißenberger, Martin - 2017

Start-up incentives targeted at unemployed individuals have become an important tool of the Active Labor Market Policy (ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training measures, wage subsidies, or job creation schemes,...

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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 42 (2016), pp. 177-193

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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - In: Regional studies 48 (2014) 6, pp. 1108-1134

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Evaluation of active labour market policy : methodological concepts and empirical estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...

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