(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …