Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment among University Graduates

• Tác giả: Patrick Premand
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.64 Size of enterprises
• Thông tin xuất bản: Elsevier, 2016
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 310914
• Chủ đề: 1. entrepreneurship education; 2. program evaluation; 3. self-employment; 4. skills; 5. training

Tóm tắt

Entrepreneurship education has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. In Tunisia, a curricular reform created an entrepreneurship track providing business training and coaching to help university students prepare a business plan. We rely on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on students' labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The entrepreneurship track led to a small increase in self-employment, but overall employment rates remained unchanged. Although business skills improved, effects on personality and entrepreneurial traits were mixed. The program nevertheless increased graduates' aspirations toward the future.