Add to ORKGAbstract: Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have become an important part of active labor market policy in several OECD countries, and in Germany in particular. We empirically evaluate two start-up subsidies for unemployed people in Germany on the basis of a rich data set that combines register data and survey data from two follow-up interviews. This merged data set allows us to estimate treatment effects for participants up to 28 months after the start of the respective program and to measure these effects in terms of three outcome variables: (i) registered unemployment, (ii) regular employment, and (iii) labor earnings. On the basis of the first outcome variable and additional information contained in the register data we will also e...