Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia

Premand, Patrick; Brodmann, Stefanie; Almeida, Rita; Grun, Rebekka E.; Barouni, Mahdi

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“…Nevertheless, Premand et al (2012) find a change in behavioral skills, such as optimism about the future, among university students randomly allocated to a business track in Tunisia. Similarly, adult business owners in Uganda showed a marked increase in personal initiative.…”

Section: National Training Institutes: Big Players In the Training Fieldmentioning

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Learning Better: Public Policy for Skills Development

Busso¹,

Cristia²,

Hincapié³

et al. 2017

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and for any non-commercial purpose. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license. Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license.The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent. Preface New technologies that are fusing the physical, digital, and biological worlds are impacting all industries, countries, and individuals. This so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution will change the way we live and transform the way we work. Preparing this and future generations of workers for a fast-changing world is not only desirable, it's essential. At the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) we know that a key ingredient to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean is having the right skills to face the challenges of this new era. For this reason, we dedicated the 2017 edition of our flagship publication, Development in the Americas (DIA), to studying this topic and to proposing evidence-based solutions to address this critical problem.Undoubtedly, our region will be heavily impacted by sweeping trends around the world. Artificial intelligence, automation, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, and autonomous vehicles are not science fiction anymore. They are real and available in many parts of the world and beginning to find their way to Latin America and the Caribbean. These new trends are changing our jobs and the way we work. The full impact of these changes is still unknown, but clearly there will be a fundamental transformation in the way businesses do their business and workers do their work.A phrase by Robin Chase (co-founder of Zipcar) is telling: "My father had one job in his lifetime, I will have six jobs in my lifetime, and my children will have six jobs at the same time." Not only will our work not be a 9-to-5 job, but we will also not have the same job for our entire life. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will impose continuous and fast changes that will imply new challenges.A central challenge is how to prepare the workers of today for the jobs of tomorrow. I am optimistic because one of the region's principal assets is its people's talent. But much must be done, starting with helping the many workers in the labor force today find good jobs, and stay updated on t...

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Section: National Training Institutes: Big Players In the Training Fieldmentioning

confidence: 87%

Learning Better: Public Policy for Skills Development

Busso¹,

Cristia²,

Hincapié³

et al. 2017

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“…For nearly all outcomes, particularly labor market activities and business performance, youth is highly associated with program success. This is largely driven by youth-targeted programs that present strong impacts, such as Uganda's vocational training program (Blattman et al, 2012) and Tunisia's business training for college graduates (Premand et al, 2011). To the contrary, women are not associated with any large and significant impacts other than the outcome of attitudes, indicating that entrepreneurship programs seem useful for female empowerment but may not be sufficient to address various barriers faced by women.…”

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“…This finding is strongest for youth and social assistance beneficiaries but does not hold among women. For women, the impacts from microcredit interventions, such as the expansion of access to loans for rural households in Mongolia (Attanasio et al, 2012) (Premand et al, 2011;Bruhn and Zia, 2011). A package approach to provide both training and financing seems to be a promising graduation strategy for social assistance beneficiaries as it increases both labor market activities and income.…”

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Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis

Cho¹,

Honorati²

2013

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…Youth in Tunisia prefer to go through long unemployment spells in order to obtain good jobs, usually in the public sector, rather than settle for mediocre to poor jobs in the informal economy (Stampini and Verdier-Chouchane 2011). While there have been attempts to address these challenges, including an entrepreneurship track for the final year of undergraduate studies (Premand et al 2012) and active labor market policies targeting graduates (Broecke 2013), these policies tend to be mostly ineffective (World Bank 2014;Krafft and Assaad 2015). Thus, empirical research on labor markets in Tunisia is vital to address growing concerns over youth unemployment and poor job quality in a context where educational attainment has been rising very rapidly.…”

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Introducing the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey 2014

Assaad

Ghazouani

Krafft

et al. 2016

IZA J Labor Develop

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This paper introduces the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey (TLMPS) of 2014, the first round of a publicly available nationally representative longitudinal household survey. We provide a description of the sample and questionnaires. We discuss a number of data collection issues, such as non-response, as well as what was done to address these issues. The construction of sample weights is detailed. A comparison of the TLMPS to other Tunisian datasets is conducted to illustrate the representativeness of the data in terms of key demographic and labor market measures. Key features of the Tunisian labor market and potential avenues for research using the TLMPS are discussed. JEL Classification: J00, C81, C83

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Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia

Cited by 34 publications

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Learning Better: Public Policy for Skills Development

Learning Better: Public Policy for Skills Development

Entrepreneurship Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta Regression Analysis

Introducing the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey 2014

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