driven by negative effects on unemployment and retirement insurance coverage. Our heterogeneity analysis reveals substantial …

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

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates …

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 …

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 …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …, their recent reforms and – where already possible – effects of these reforms. Overall, Germany seems to be on the right …

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … innovative survey data. The administrative part of the dataset consists of a large random sample of inflows into unemployment in … Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …

are limited and starting an own business is an opportunity to leave unemployment. However, the survival of firms in … administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as … well as a control group of unemployed who did not enter these programs. We add information on unemployment rates and GDP …