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Who Benefits From Promoting Small and Medium Scale Enterprises? : Some Empirical Evidence From Ethiopia / Rijkers, Bob
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Rijkers, Bob
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Access to Finance.
- Active labor.
- Active labor market.
- Active labor market programs.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Job creation.
- Jobs.
- Labor intensity.
- Labor market.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Microfinance.
- Self-employment assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Unemployment.
- Workers.
- Local Subjects:
- Access to Finance.
- Active labor.
- Active labor market.
- Active labor market programs.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Job creation.
- Jobs.
- Labor intensity.
- Labor market.
- Labor Markets.
- Labor Policies.
- Microfinance.
- Self-employment assistance.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Unemployment.
- Workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28 pages)
- Other Title:
- Who Benefits From Promoting Small and Medium Scale Enterprises?
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2008
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The Addis Ababa Integrated Housing Development Program aims to tackle the housing shortage and unemployment that prevail in Addis Ababa by deploying and supporting small and medium scale enterprises to construct low-cost housing using technologies novel for Ethiopia. The motivation for such support is predicated on the view that small firms create more jobs per unit of investment by virtue of being more labor intensive and that the jobs so created are concentrated among the low-skilled and hence the poor. To assess whether the program has succeeded in biasing technology adoption in favor of labor and thereby contributed to poverty reduction, the impact of the program on technology usage, labor intensity, and earnings is investigated using a unique matched workers-firms dataset, the Addis Ababa Construction Enterprise Survey. The data are representative of all registered construction firms in Addis and were collected specifically for the purpose of analyzing the impact of the program. The authors find that program firms do not adopt different technologies and are not more labor intensive than non-program firms. There is an earnings premium for program participants, who tend to be relatively well-educated, which is heterogeneous and highest for those at the bottom of the earnings distribution.
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