The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment. A statistical evaluation of outside assistance support programs for unemployed business founders in Germany
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In: Journal for Labour Market Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, 01.03.2015, p. 1-25.
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T1 - The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment. A statistical evaluation of outside assistance support programs for unemployed business founders in Germany
AU - Oberschachtsiek, Dirk
AU - Scioch, Patrycja
PY - 2015/3/1
Y1 - 2015/3/1
N2 - This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders through programs that offer external expertise enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis, we focus on three different programs that are provided along with a financial subsidy and that focus on founders who started a business while they were unemployed. We found that participation was strongly determined by regional patterns and time, and that individual characteristics were less important. These results reflect a particular regional specialization in promoting self-employment. A statistical matching approach was used to control for selectivity and was performed in a way that explicitly considered differences across regions and over time. The results show that the treatment effects tended to be low. However, we found evidence that external expertise increased passive learning.
AB - This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders through programs that offer external expertise enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis, we focus on three different programs that are provided along with a financial subsidy and that focus on founders who started a business while they were unemployed. We found that participation was strongly determined by regional patterns and time, and that individual characteristics were less important. These results reflect a particular regional specialization in promoting self-employment. A statistical matching approach was used to control for selectivity and was performed in a way that explicitly considered differences across regions and over time. The results show that the treatment effects tended to be low. However, we found evidence that external expertise increased passive learning.
KW - Public policy
KW - Statistical matching
KW - Evaluation
KW - Self-employment promotion
KW - Economics
KW - Economics, empirical/statistics
KW - Entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84975299071&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12651-014-0161-6
DO - 10.1007/s12651-014-0161-6
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 48
SP - 1
EP - 25
JO - Journal for Labour Market Research
JF - Journal for Labour Market Research
SN - 1614-3485
IS - 1
ER -