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

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dc.contributor.authorAlmeida, Rita K.
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:33:30Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:33:30Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Development
dc.identifier.issn0305750X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/5575
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectWelfare and Poverty: Government Programs
dc.subjectProvision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380
dc.subjectTime Allocation and Labor Supply J220
dc.subjectLabor Demand J230
dc.subjectMicroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.titleJump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentinaen
dc.title.alternativeWorld Developmenten
dc.typeJournal Articleen
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dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum49
okr.journal.nbpages742-755
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryArgentina
okr.relation.associatedurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.018
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okr.volume38
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