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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: Long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft
countries. Previous evaluation results show pre-dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an … previous evaluation studies are based on administrative data, information on such variables is not available. This raises the … neglecting personality traits in the program evaluation leads to slight over-estimation of the average treatment effects on the …
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2007
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 notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence...
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473187
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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420781
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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449690
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
-employment ; evaluation ; long-term effects ; effect heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941759
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
-employment ; evaluation ; long-term effects ; effect heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945974
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449371