The Effects of Micro-entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Martinez A, Claudia; Puentes, Esteban; Ruiz-Tagle, Jaime
• 署名单位: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Universidad de Chile; Universidad de Chile
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150245
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 101-124
• 关键词: DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; field experiment; returns; enterprise; Uganda

摘要

We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned participation in a large scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program and evaluated its effects over 45 months. The program improved business practices, employment, and labor income. In the short run, self-employment increased by 14.8/25.2 percentage points for a small/large asset transfer In the long run, individuals assigned to a smaller transfer were 9 percentage points more likely to become wage workers, whereas those assigned to larger transfers tended to remain self-enyhoyed.