The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Blattman, Christopher; Dercon, Stefan
• 署名单位: University of Chicago; University of Oxford; University of Oxford
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20170173
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 1-38
• 关键词: wages

摘要

Working with five Ethiopian firms, we randomized applicants to an industrial job offer, an entrepreneurship program of $300 plus business training, or control status. Industrial jobs offered more and steadier hours but low wages and risky conditions. The job offer doubled exposure to industrial work but, since most quit within months, had no impact on employment or income after a year. Applicants largely took industrial work to cope with adverse shocks. This exposure, meanwhile, significantly increased health problems. The entrepreneurship program raised earnings 33 percent and provided steadier hours. When barriers to self-employment were relieved, applicants preferred entrepreneurial to industrial labor.