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...
Main Authors: | de Mel, Suresh, McKenzie, David, Woodruff, Christopher |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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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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