. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor …

notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of … the present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes for the unemployed. Our …

Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as … effectiveness of two start-up programs in East Germany. Our findings even though partly preliminary - are rather promising, showing … a labor market with structural problems such as the one in East Germany. -- Start-up subsidies ; evaluation …

. 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 …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … methods we find supportive evidence that the founding process and development of businesses as well as program effectiveness …

. 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 …

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 …

creation schemes, or wage subsidies - the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such schemes is still scarce; especially …

creation schemes, or wage subsidies-the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such schemes is still scarce; especially …