(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 …

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able … heterogeneous. -- Start-up subsidies ; self-employment ; unemployment ; direct employment effects ; survival …

quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell …