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economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women’s access to quality employment, a …
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Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
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increases for male owners but not for female owners. We show that the gender gap does not simply mask differences in ability …, risk aversion, entrepreneurial attitudes, or differences in reporting behavior, but there is some evidence that the gender …
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We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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We conduct a randomized experiment among women in urban Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. We study two groups of women: a random sample operating subsistence enterprises...
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Microenterprises are the main source of income and employment for a majority of the world's poor. Developing … that, on the one hand, men can improve their company profits through microloans by expanding employment outside as well as …
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Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083443
has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition …, gender-related inefficiency in household production might undermine the positive impact of improved incentives. Using data …
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The present paper investigates the development of nonwage employment (NWE) in the context of sensible changes in …-based economy in the countries with solid market economy. A comparative analysis is made about the relative importance of employment …
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). Using hedonic sales and employment indices we find that 2% of firm sales is lost to negative gender externality. We show … employment. When we impose transfer restrictions under perfect information, sales is unaffected but firms respond by increasing … the amount of part time employees hired and do not increase full time employment. Moreover, we show that WBE presence at …
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