کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
971768 1479705 2015 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Do interventions targeted at micro-entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized firms create jobs? A systematic review of the evidence for low and middle income countries
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
آیا مداخلات هدفمند برای کارآفرینان کوچک و شرکت های کوچک و متوسط ​​ایجاد شغل می کنند؟ بررسی سیستماتیک شواهد برای کشورهای کم درآمد و متوسط
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


• The employment effects of entrepreneurship interventions have so far been very small.
• It is easier to enhance self-employment than to expand employment in existing firms.
• Finance alone is less effective than training or business development services.
• RCTs find systematically smaller employment effects than quasi-experimental studies.
• There is very little evidence on long term effects and cost effectiveness.

Worldwide, 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at their current level. Because most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises, governments, non-governmental organizations and donors spend on targeted programs and broader policies to enhance employment creation in these firms. But despite these efforts, not much is known about which of these interventions are really effective. This systematic review synthesizes the existing evidence on the employment impact of these programs. The results show that the effects have so far been very modest. Even if many interventions were relatively successful in boosting self-employment, expanding employment in already existing firms is generally more difficult but eventually easier in somewhat larger firms compared to very small firms. This finding is also true in relative terms, but it is probably not fully independent from the contexts in which firms of different sizes have been observed. The effects of finance interventions have on average been weaker than the effects of entrepreneurship training or business development services. Our study also reveals that about a third of the interventions covered by this review are not primarily designed to create employment but rather strive for income stabilization and poverty reduction. A further striking finding is that the study design matters for the impacts found; randomized controlled trials find systematically smaller effects than quasi-experimental studies. A significant shortcoming of the literature is that almost nothing is known about long term effects and cost-effectiveness and many studies fail to provide a detailed analysis of why certain effects occurred or did not occur — making it hard to extrapolate lessons.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Labour Economics - Volume 32, January 2015, Pages 67–85
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