...Uwe Blien; Elke J. Jahn; Gesine Stephan; Marco Caliendo Purpose The purpose of the paper is to estimate the effectiveness of two start‐up programs (bridging allowance and start‐up subsidy) in East Germany. Design/methodology/approach Using a combination of administrative data from the Federal...

..., in which growth is driven by endogenous technical progress, to analyse the impacts of several policies (minimum wage, redistribution and R&D subsidies financed by an income tax). Findings All policies except pure redistribution are better than non‐intervention in terms of growth. The authors...

...Dimitris Skuras; Efthalia Dimara; Sophia Stathopoulou Assesses the job creation effects of capital subsidies provided to small and medium enterprises in rural and lagging areas. The proposed methodology takes account of extensive censoring of job creation among assisted rural firms, endogeneity...

... of efficiency and equity in the allocation of resources. Under efficiency, two separate reasons may justify government intervention: imperfect market conditions and externalities. Under the equity criterion, subsidies are often intended to improve the access to jobs and income, particularly among disadvantaged...

... introduced a price strategy in which employers were induced to increase their job offers to the disabled through a system of wage subsidy and workplace modification schemes. The performance of these schemes became an interesting test of the general policy of using market variables to influence what many...