(ALMP) to fight unemployment in many countries in recent years. In contrast to traditional ALMP instruments like training … unemployed individuals to exit unemployment by entering self-employment and, thus, by creating their own jobs. In this sense … combat unemployment but also as business policy to promote entrepreneurship. The corresponding empirical literature on this …

claiming unemployment insurance benefits. Then, we explore the effect of potential benefit duration on the transitions to …

2003, the "start-up-subsidy" (Existenzgründungszuschuss) was added to the existing "bridging-allowance" (Überbrückungsgeld … and efficient and the start-up-subsidy reached new target groups, the latest reform shows several short-comings. First of …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …

"Gründungszuschussʺ. Since the bridging allowance has been evaluated as effective and efficient and the start-up subsidy reached new … market policy ; unemployment …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies …