Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina

• Tác giả: Rita K Almeida
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 016.98 Bibliographies and catalogs of works on specific subjects or in specific disciplines
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 326196
• Chủ đề: 1. Labor Demand J230; 2. Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120; 3. Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380; 4. Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220; 5. Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs

Tóm tắt

We evaluate the effects of a self-employment program offered to welfare beneficiaries of a large safety net program in Argentina. The program promotes self-employment by providing financial and technical assistance. Our findings show that only a small and selected subset of welfare beneficiaries is attracted to this type of exit strategy (female household heads and more educated). Exploring non-experimental methods, we also show that in the short-run participation in the program affects the labor supply of participants, by reducing the probability of having an outside job and increasing the total number of hours worked. However, at least in the short-run, the intervention fails to produce income gains to the average participant.