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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007
Fostering and supporting start-up businesses by unemployed persons has become an increasingly important issue in many European countries. These new ventures are being supported by various governmental programs. Potential benefits include not only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268245
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
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 accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592864
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775587
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319509
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Start-up subsidies in East Germany: finally, a policy that works?
Caliendo, Marco - 2008
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268805
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Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156472
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Getting back into the labor market: The effects of start-up subsidies for unemployed females
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2012
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287711
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005
effects tend to persist almost completely until the end of our evaluation period. The positive effects are stronger in West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267544
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Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822210
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451199