This paper deals with the size of newly founded enterprises. On the basis of a multivariate regression analysis, it is investigated whether innovative start-ups create more jobs than other newly founded enterprises. It can be shown that start-ups with R&D based innovations have a strong effect...

This paper is a study of the UK government's Welfare to Work Programme between 2011 and 2012 and provides a critique of the Department of Work and Pension's commissioning and procurement process.The study draws on the views of relevant stakeholders and to the impact of two-tier procurement,...

This study compared the employment growth patterns of innovative and non-innovative firms, focusing on whether or not there are systematic differences between these two categories in the persistence of the jobs they create. To this end, a unique longitudinal dataset of 3304 Spanish firms over...

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...