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

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...

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Main Authors:	Almeida, Rita K., Galasso, Emanuela
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Labor Demand J230 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5575

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spelling	okr-10986-55752021-04-23T14:02:22Z Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina Almeida, Rita K. Galasso, Emanuela Welfare and Poverty: Government Programs Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs I380 Time Allocation and Labor Supply J220 Labor Demand J230 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 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. 2012-03-30T07:33:30Z 2012-03-30T07:33:30Z 2010 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5575 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Argentina
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description	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.
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author	Almeida, Rita K. Galasso, Emanuela
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title	Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina
title_short	Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina
title_full	Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina
title_fullStr	Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed	Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina
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Jump-Starting Self-Employment? Evidence for Welfare Participants in Argentina

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