Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

The Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program (AAIHDP) aims to tackle the housing shortage and unemployment that prevail in Addis Ababa by deploying and supporting small enterprises to construct low-cost housing using technologies novel for Ethiopia. The motivation for such support is predi...

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Main Authors:	Rijkers, Bob, Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina, Teal, Francis
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis D220 Production Cost Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity Capacity D240 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4888

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spelling	okr-10986-48882021-04-23T14:02:20Z Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia Rijkers, Bob Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina Teal, Francis Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis D220 Production Cost Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity Capacity D240 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 The Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program (AAIHDP) aims to tackle the housing shortage and unemployment that prevail in Addis Ababa by deploying and supporting small enterprises to construct low-cost housing using technologies novel for Ethiopia. The motivation for such support is predicated on the view that small firms create more jobs per unit of investment by virtue of being more labor intensive and that the jobs so created are concentrated among the low-skilled and hence the poor. To assess whether the program has succeeded in biasing technology adoption in favor of labor and thereby contributed to poverty reduction, the impact of the program on technology usage, labor intensity, and earnings is investigated using a unique matched workers-firms dataset, the Addis Ababa Construction Enterprise Survey (AACES), collected specifically for the purpose of analyzing the impact of the program. We find that program firms do not adopt different technologies and are not more labor intensive than nonprogram firms. There is an earnings premium for program participants, who tend to be relatively well educated, which is heterogeneous and highest for those at the bottom of the earnings distribution. 2012-03-30T07:30:14Z 2012-03-30T07:30:14Z 2010 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4888 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Ethiopia
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spellingShingle	Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis D220 Production Cost Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity Capacity D240 Wage Level and Structure Wage Differentials J310 Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope L250 Rijkers, Bob Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina Teal, Francis Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
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description	The Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program (AAIHDP) aims to tackle the housing shortage and unemployment that prevail in Addis Ababa by deploying and supporting small enterprises to construct low-cost housing using technologies novel for Ethiopia. The motivation for such support is predicated on the view that small firms create more jobs per unit of investment by virtue of being more labor intensive and that the jobs so created are concentrated among the low-skilled and hence the poor. To assess whether the program has succeeded in biasing technology adoption in favor of labor and thereby contributed to poverty reduction, the impact of the program on technology usage, labor intensity, and earnings is investigated using a unique matched workers-firms dataset, the Addis Ababa Construction Enterprise Survey (AACES), collected specifically for the purpose of analyzing the impact of the program. We find that program firms do not adopt different technologies and are not more labor intensive than nonprogram firms. There is an earnings premium for program participants, who tend to be relatively well educated, which is heterogeneous and highest for those at the bottom of the earnings distribution.
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author	Rijkers, Bob Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina Teal, Francis
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title	Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
title_short	Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
title_full	Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
title_fullStr	Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed	Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
title_sort	who benefits from promoting small enterprises? some empirical evidence from ethiopia
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Who Benefits from Promoting Small Enterprises? Some Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia

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