Labor drops: Experimental evidence on the return to additional labor in microenterprises

A field experiment in Sri Lanka provided wage subsidies to randomly chosen microenterprises to test whether hiring additional labor benefits such firms, and whether a short-term subsidy can have a lasting impact on firm employment. Using 12 rounds of surveys to track dynamics four years after treatm...

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Autores principales: de Mel, S, McKenzie, D, Woodruff, C
Formato: Journal article
Publicado: American Economic Association 2019