Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …

unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …

To tackle mass unemployment and increase participation rates, the German government over recent years has mainly … usually ignore involuntary unemployment. This leads to biased estimates of labour supply elasticities and erroneous … predictions of the effects of the measure. This aspect is all the more important in a country like Germany, characterized by high …

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik (AAMP) umfasst eine Vielzahl staatlicher Maßnahmen zur Verhinderung von Arbeitslosigkeit und … Förderung von Beschäftigung. Die quantitativ wichtigsten Programme der AAMP in Deutschland waren traditionell die Förderung der … Deutschland bewertet. Die Darstellung wird ergänzt durch die Einbeziehung der Ergebnisse einiger internationaler …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical … effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously … unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite …