Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?
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Keywords
self-employment; East Germany; effectiveness; evaluation; start-up subsidies;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2008-03-15 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-LAB-2008-03-15 (Labour Economics)
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