This paper presents new evidence on the efficacy of self-employment training programs using data from Project GATE … self-employment training to a random sample of individuals who expressed a strong interest in self-employment. Our analyses … significant gains in self-employment and overall employment in the early months following program participation. These impacts …

demonstration program designed to provide free self-employment assistance to individuals interested in starting their own business …. This paper uses data from Project GATE to examine the efficacy of public self-employment training programs in the modern U … random assignment, GATE also led to higher employment likelihood and higher total earnings five years after random assignment …

This paper uses data from Project GATE to examine the efficacy of offering free self-employment assistance to … unemployed individuals interested in self-employment, overall and by race. We also examine the effect of participants’ self-employment … background, finances, and personal circumstances on their self-employment outcomes. We find that Project GATE led to significant …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self-employment … for most ALPs and additive benefits from the use of the employment service in both countries. Strong evidence of nonrandom …

, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 …

markets, the governments of Hungary and Poland provide labor force members with unemployment compensation and a variety of … active labor programs (ALPs). Follow-up surveys of participants in retraining, public works, wage subsidies, self-employment … for most ALPs and additive benefits from the use of the employment service in both countries. Strong evidence of nonrandom …

, program impacts in both countries on unemployment compensation savings were large, and impacts on employment outcomes were …. Among subgroups, self- employment appeared to be more effective in high unemployment areas in Hungary, among females in …To evaluate the effectiveness of self-employment assistance to the unemployed in Hungary and Poland more than 5 …

We study the character of self-employment, drawing upon household survey evidence from six transition economies …

those with prior self-employment experience - to start a business and become self-employed, while it may have persuaded … others to pursue salary employment instead. During the Great Recession, training helped training participants become self …-employed, particularly those with no prior self-employment experience. Regardless of economic conditions, positive impacts on self-employment …

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …