(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 …

exacerbates unemployment. Our richer setting allows for generational differences in the motivations for job search to be reflected … in two distinct inverted U‐shaped relationships between unemployment and high‐wage employment, one for youth and a … different one for adults. In turn, the relationship between overall unemployment and high‐wage employment is shown to be non …

unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …

Turning unemployment into self-employment is a suitable alternative to traditional active labor market policies in many …

who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …

and firm development. While firm survival seems to be negatively affected by foundation from unemployment, especially in …