Labor Drops : Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises

Labor Drops : Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises

The majority of enterprises in many developing countries have no paid workers. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor...

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Main Authors: de Mel, Suresh, McKenzie, David, Woodruff, Christopher
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
microenterprises
labor market
field experiment
wage subsidies
labor market friction
employment
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/635781482172997729/Labor-drops-experimental-evidence-on-the-return-to-additional-labor-in-microenterprises
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25827

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/635781482172997729/Labor-drops-experimental-evidence-on-the-return-to-additional-labor-in-microenterprises
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25827

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