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...

Unternehmensgründungen werden vielfältige positive wirtschaftliche Wirkungen zugesprochen, wie z. B. Wirtschaftswachstum, Beschäftigungssteigerung oder Strukturwandel. Um diese Effekte zu verstärken, existiert eine Vielzahl öffentlicher Förderprogramme für Existenz- und...

In industrialized economies such as the European countries unemployment rates are very responsive to the business cycle and significant shares stay unemployed for more than one year. To fight cyclical and long-term unemployment countries spend significant shares of their budget on Active Labor...