Arbeitspapier
Getting back into the labor market: The effects of start-up subsidies for unemployed females
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Beside activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for exible working hours, discrimination), this is a difficult task, and the question arises whether active labor market policies (ALMP) are an appropriate tool to do so. Promoting self-employment among the unemployed might be promising. Starting their own business might give women more independence and exibility in allocating their time to work and family. Access to long-term informative data allows us to close existing research gaps, and we investigate the impact of two start-up programs on long-run labor market and fertility outcomes of female participants. We find that start-up programs persistently integrate former unemployed women into the labor market and partly improve their income situations. The impact on fertility is less detrimental than for traditional ALMP programs.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1260
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
- Subject
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Start-Up Subsidies
Evaluation
Long-Term Effects
Female Labor-Force Participation
Fertility
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Caliendo, Marco
Künn, Steffen
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
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Berlin
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2012
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Caliendo, Marco
- Künn, Steffen
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Time of origin
- 2012