We investigate the extent to which financial frictions shape the aggregate effects of a trade liberalization through their impact on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) and capital misallocation. We study a small ...

We assess the allocative importance of education when workers can choose to self-employ. To do so, we build a model combining educational choices with the labor market and selfemployment. Education can increase workers' ...

Este trabajo se focaliza en las políticas de fomento al emprendimiento dinámico, es decir de las nuevas empresas que, además de sobrevivir, logran crecer de manera significativa. Este trabajo describe y analiza aquellas ...

This study evaluates the impacts of a business training program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima that have previously benefited with the titling of their urban parcels. The intervention included personal development, ...

Este trabajo evalúa el impacto de una política orientada a promover la creación y desarrollo de emprendimientos innovadores en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. El programa recibe unos 100 proyectos por año, de los cuales selecciona ...

In this paper, we study the characteristics and growth dynamics of young businesses, and the contribution of these businesses to aggregate growth, in a developing economy: Colombia. Our study covers the 17 years between ...

Los países de América Latina han experimentado fuertes transformaciones en sus mercados laborales, las cuales han tenido consecuencias en términos sociales y productivos. Analizar al mercado laboral, y en particular a las ...

This is a study of entrepreneurial ventures in Argentina, in particular regarding their finance and growth in their early years. We sample young manufacturing SMEs (i.e., with an average of six years and a maximum of ten ...