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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility criteria were tightened and entitlement was abandoned...
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The recent SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has contributed to several corporate crises. As a result, many Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Italy have filed for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2020. In addition to a gigantic macroeconomic effect, the lockdown has impacted individuals to a...
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The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its institutional setup, adding an additional layer of selection and leading to ambiguous predictions of the program's effectiveness. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main...
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility criteria were tightened and entitlement was abandoned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946566
In the present paper it will be pointed out with a panel data econometric model that taxation on entrepreneurship … causes unemployment, but the impact of taxation is not equal among all countries. The estimation of the model is made …
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In this paper it is shown that barriers to entrepreneurship increase unemployment rate. This will be feasible by using …
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possibility that the relationship between self-employment and unemployment is not identical across nations; ii) circumvent … differing effects on unemployment, depending on the regime; and iv) analyze the dynamic effects of self-employment shocks on job … significant response of cyclical unemployment to shocks to self-employment but with differing intensities, depending on the level …
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This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high … unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the "refugee" effect). On the other hand, higher … rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing unemployment in subsequent periods (the …
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unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on re-employment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …
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outweigh long term unemployment rate. This finding is a comment on the work of (Glocker and Steiner, 2007). Panel data are used …
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