The Effects of Micro-entrepreneurship Programs on Labor Market Performance: Experimental Evidence from Chile
研究智利一项提供资产转移和商业培训的微型创业项目，发现项目改善了商业实践、就业和劳动收入，且资产转移规模不同对长期就业形式有不同影响。
We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned participation in a large scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program and evaluated its effects over 45 months. The program improved business practices, employment, and labor income. In the short run, self-employment increased by 14.8/25.2 percentage points for a small/large asset transfer. In the long run, individuals assigned to a smaller transfer were 9 percentage points more likely to become wage workers, whereas those assigned to larger transfers tended to remain self-employed.