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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data …

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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States?

Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa - 2010

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the US context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...

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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada

Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020

Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...

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The value of skill training programs for self-employment, entrepreneurship and non-cognitive traits. Evidence from a regression discontinuity design

Chakravarty, Shubha; Lundberg, Mattias K. A.; Nikolov, … - 2017 - Current Draft: September 12, 2017

self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal …

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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