Start-up Subsidies for Entrepreneurs out of Unemployment

The OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) monitors and reports on the state, development and impact of inclusive entrepreneurial activity in European Union and OECD countries, and related public policies and actions. It focuses on how public policy can create jobs through self-employment and entrepreneurship, and provide better access to the labour market for economically and socially disadvantaged and under-represented groups (e.g. women, youth, seniors, people with disabilities, the unemployed).
Against this background the research group Entrepreneurship will run a project on the effectiveness of start-up grant schemes that support business creation by job seekers providing an overview of start-up grant schemes for job seekers and the state knowledge about their impact and effectiveness. This will include a discussion of the objectives for these types of schemes and the rationale for governments to use these types of schemes. In the project it will also be described what governments can do to make these schemes more effective and impactful. This discussion should be supported by recent evaluation evidence. It should consider whether there are any considerations when designing schemes for different profiles of job seekers.