| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23005 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23005 |
| Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises | |
| Suresh De Mel; David McKenzie; Christopher Woodruff | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-01-02 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The majority of enterprises in developing countries have no paid workers. Is this optimal, or the result of frictions in labor markets? We conduct an experiment providing wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises in Sri Lanka. In the presence of frictions, a short-term subsidy could have a lasting impact on employment. We find the subsidy induced firms to hire, but there was no lasting impact on employment, profitability, or sales. Analysis rules out several theoretical mechanisms that could result in sub-optimally low employment. We conclude that labor market frictions are not the reason own-account workers do not become employers. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Experimental Design ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23005 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580678 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Suresh De Mel,David McKenzie,Christopher Woodruff. Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises. 2017. |
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| w23005.pdf（2167KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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