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...

Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become anincreasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are beingsupported by various governmental programs. Potential benefits include not only the end ofunemployment for the new entrepreneur but...

Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformedseveral times. In 2003, the start-up subsidy was added to the existing bridging allowance...

This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively andsystematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value.Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution ofentrepreneurs to the economy in...

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through whichuniversities contribute to economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneursusing a comprehensive venture capital database...

Existing literature suggests that entrepreneurs with prior firm-founding experience have moreskills and social connections than novice entrepreneurs. Such skills and social connectionscould give experienced founders some advantage in the process of raising venture capital.This paper uses a large...

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based onthe personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction ofentrepreneurial success...

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German activelabour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduceGermany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low selfemploymentrate. Empirical evidence on...

Nachfolgeregelung durch Unternehmenskauf - Werkzeuge für die Bewertungund Finanzierung kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen im Rahmen einerexternen Nachfolge - die Themenstellung dieser Arbeit enthält zweiSchwerpunkte aus dem Gesamtprozess der Unternehmensnachfolge durchVerkauf: Die...

Seit einigen Jahren ist im Gefolge von Basel II das Thema Rating in der (wirtschafts-)politischen ebenso wie in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion. Die Intensität der Auseinandersetzungen variiert dabei zwar im Zeitablauf, aber ganzin den Hintergrund getreten ist die Thematik seit mindestens...