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...

Die Dissertation beinhaltet drei Kapitel zu den größten Finanzkrisen des letzten Jahrhunderts - der Großen Depression (ab 1929) und der Großen Rezession (ab 2007-08). Der Kern der Arbeit liegt in der Verbindung zwischen einer ungleicheren Einkommensverteilung, Haushaltsverschuldung,...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...