Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment

Reize, Frank

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“…The industrial organization literature focuses on M&As that are undertaken to strengthen market power (Kamien and Zang, 1990) or that arise due to the possibility to realize efficiency gains exploiting economies of scale and scope (Röller et al, 2001). The effects on market structure and efficiency also belong to the main channels through which M&As can affect R&D. M&As can provide access to target firms' assets that are valuable to acquirers such as production capabilities or intangible assets (e.g.…”

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“…Theoretically, the effect of a foreign acquisition on a firm's innovation output is ambiguous as well. On the one hand, M&As might increase the efficiency of R&D activities exploiting complementarities (Röller et al, 2001). Furthermore, foreign parents might transfer part of their technology to their affiliates (Markusen, 1995) to exploit their firmspecific assets in the host country.…”

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The impact of FDI through mergers and acquisitions on innovation in target firms

Stiebale

Reize

2011

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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The impact of FDI through mergers and acquisitions on innovation in target firms

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Reize

2011

International Journal of Industrial Organization

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“…Early studies included studies by Pfeiffer and Reize (2000) and Reize (2004). Pfeiffer and Reize (2000) compare the survival probability of firms of unemployed people who started their business receiving a start-up subsidy with that of a control group of firms started by unemployed people who did not receive the subsidy by the public employment office.…”

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“…At the same time no significant relationship between subsidies and firm survival was found in West Germany. Reize (2004) analyses transitions in and out of unemployment and concludes that comparing to other exits out of unemployment individuals who started their businesses after a period of unemployment had the lowest chance of registering with the employment office again.…”

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Start Me Up: The Effectiveness of a Self-employment Programme for Needy Unemployed People in Germany

Wolff

Nivorozhkin

2012

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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In recent years activation of means-tested unemployment benefit recipients has become a major issue of German labour market policy. We study the effect of participation in a new start-up scheme for needy unemployed people in Germany. It was introduced at the start of the year 2005 together with a new means-tested benefit system under the Social Code II. We used data from administrative records to draw a sample of needy participants who entered the programme from February to April 2005 and an adequate control group of needy unemployed people. Even though these data are quite rich in terms of information on the labour market performance and individual and household characteristics, they do not provide information on unsubsidised selfemployment. Therefore, using matching methods we estimate the impact of the programme participation on other outcomes, in particular "neither being registered as unemployed nor as a job-seeker" and "no receipt of unemployment benefit II". Our estimated treatment effects imply that even by the time when nearly no participant receives the start-up subsidy treatment reduces their jobseeker rate and rate of means-tested benefit receipt. We distinguished between different types of participants (e.g. by gender, region, or time since end of last job) and find quite similar treatment effects for most groups.JEL classification: C13, H43, J68 Keywords: Propensity score matching, treatment effects, evaluation of active labour market policy, start-up subsidies, means-tested benefit recipients * We are extremely grateful to Cordula Zabel for her very helpful comments.

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“…For the bivariate selection model, the expressions for inverses of Mill´s ratios are defined as follows (see Goux and Maurin, 2000, Reize, 2001or Reize, 2004b: …”

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The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Target Firms

Stiebale

Reize

2008

SSRN Journal

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Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment

Cited by 21 publications

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The impact of FDI through mergers and acquisitions on innovation in target firms

The impact of FDI through mergers and acquisitions on innovation in target firms

Start Me Up: The Effectiveness of a Self-employment Programme for Needy Unemployed People in Germany

The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Target Firms

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