This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way outof (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into selfemploymentand previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis …

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …