Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere …