(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 …

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only …

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 …