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In order to obtain results on both the use and success of bridging allowance, the Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg (IAB) carried out several descriptive analyses on recipients of bridging allowance. The first sample contained people who received bridging allowance between 1986 and 1988 (see Kaiser and Otto, 1990). The aim was to determine the influence of legislative changes on the granting of bridging allowance, the tendency to become unemployed again after the subsidisation and the socio-demographic structure of the bridging allowance recipients.
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This sample was also used for the analysis in this study, see Chapter 8.
Albeit the analysis of determinants is done within a multivariate logit model, the estimation has more or less the character of a descriptive analysis rather than of a causal one. The most crucial point is that Wießner (2001) only tests subsets of certain determinants in different models.
An exception might be the work of Welter (2000) which analysis start-ups from unemployment and micro-financing of these firms based on case studies.
Meager (1996) presents an overview on the evaluation of labour market policies which subsidise transitions form unemployment to self-employment. However, his results are more or less of descriptive nature.
For the United Kingdom an overview on the role of micro-finance for transitions from unemployment to self-employment is provided by Metcalf et al. (2000).
Metcalf and Benson (2000) provide an overview on micro-financing programmes for the United Kingdom. See also footnote above.
Similar parametric models are employed in the present study. See Chapter 8.
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Reize, F. (2004). Previous Empirical Findings on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment. In: Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment. ZEW Economic Studies, vol 25. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2685-2_3
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