The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment. A statistical evaluation of outside assistance support programs for unemployed business founders in Germany

Die Erfolgswirkung von Gründercoaching und Gründertrainings. Eine Evaluation von Fördermaßnahmen bei Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland

Dirk Oberschachtsiek and Patrycja Scioch
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Dirk Oberschachtsiek: Leuphana University of Lueneburg

Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, vol. 48, issue 1, 1-25

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Public policy; Statistical matching; Evaluation; Self-employment promotion; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Statistisches Matching; Evaluation; Förderung von Selbständigkeit; J68; J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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