Mar 01	New Discussion Paper: Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity [with S. Kuenn]. [more...]
Jan 09	New Discussion Paper: Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies [with D. Cobb-Clark, A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Jan 07	Published: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren, Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 42(4), 269-291. [more...]
2009
Dec 30	New Discussion Paper: "I Want to, But I also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity [with A. Kritikos]. [more...]
Dec 28	New Discussion Paper: Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach [with K. Tatsiramos, A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Dec 22	New Working Paper: Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience, IFAU Working Paper No. 2009/26. [more...]
Dec 21	New Research Project: Evaluating the New Start-Up Subsidy for Unemployed, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany.
Dec 02	Published: Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?, International Journal of Manpower, 30(7), 625-647. [more...]
Oct 30	Call for Papers: 9th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010. [more...]
Oct 29	New Accepted Paper: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren, forthcoming in: Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung. [more...]
Aug 18	Published: The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply, Applied Economics Letters, 16(9), 877-883. [more...]
May 18	Published: The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals, Journal of the European Economic Association (P&P), 7(2-3), 606-616. [more...]
May 04	Published: Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose - Chancen und Risiken, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 10(2), 189-213. [more...]
Apr 06	New Accepted Paper: Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects, forthcoming in: Small Business Economics. [more...]
Mar 02	New Policy Paper: Ich-AG und Überbrückungsgeld - Erfolgsgeschichte mit zu frühem Ende, IAB Kurzbericht No. 3/2009. [more...]
Feb 24	New Accepted Paper: Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?, forthcoming in: International Journal of Manpower. [more...]
Feb 04	IZA Top 10 Download: The paper "Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren" has been in the IZA Top 10 Downloads for Dec 08 and Jan 09. [more...]
Jan 12	Published: Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs - New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey, Small Business Economics [with F.Fossen, A.S.Kritikos]. [more...]
Jan 02	New Accepted Paper: Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose - Chancen und Risiken, forthcoming in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik [with A.S.Kritikos]. [more...]
2008
Dec 19	New Discussion Paper: Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patters [with A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Dec 19	Call for Papers: 5th IZA Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation (joint with Georgetown University), Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 [more...]
Dec 8	New Discussion Paper: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren [with S. Künn, and F. Wießner]. [more...]
Nov 11	New Accepted Paper: The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals, forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association [with G. van den Berg, A. Bergemann]. [more...]
Oct 14	New Discussion Paper: The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations [with M. Clement, D. Papies, and S. Scheel-Kopeinig]. [more...]
Sep 26	Program online: 2nd Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Bonn, October 10-11, 2008 [more...]
Sep 11	Call for Papers: 8th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, Submission Deadline: January 16, 2009 [more...]
Aug 01	IZA Top 10 Download: The paper "The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival" has been in the IZA Top 10 Downloads for June and July. [more...]
Jul 15	New Accepted Paper: 'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market, forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics [with O. Bargain, P. Haan, and K. Orsini]. [more...]
Jun 24	New Research Grant: Job Search Behavior of the Unemployed [joint with A. Uhlendorff], German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn
Jun 03	New Discussion Paper: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival [with F. Fossen, and A. Kritikos]. [more...]
May 15	Reminder - Call for papers: 2nd Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Deadline: 15 June, 2008 [more...]
May 05	Published: Turning Unemployment Into Self-Employment: Effectiveness of Two Start-Up Programmes, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 70(3), 347-373 [with H. Baumgartner]. [more...]
Apr 16	Published: Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach, Kyklos, 61(2), 189-214 [with A. Kritikos]. [more...]