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

Small Business Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 165-190

  Caliendo, Marco ^a,b,c,d   Hogenacker, Jens ^a,b   Künn, Steffen ^b   Wießner, Frank ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deadweight effects; Entrepreneurship; Evaluation; Innovation; Start up subsidies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939955329     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9646-0     Document Type: Article

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