TY  - BOOK
AU  - Premand,Patrick
AU  - Almeida,Rita
AU  - Barouni,Mahdi
AU  - Brodmann,Stefanie
AU  - Grun,Rebekka
AU  - Premand,Patrick
TI  - Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Behavioral skills
KW  - Employment and Unemployment
KW  - Entrepreneurship training
KW  - Labor Markets
KW  - Program evaluation
KW  - Self-employment
KW  - Skills Development and Labor Force Training
KW  - Small and Medium Size Enterprises
KW  - Social Development
KW  - Social Protections and Labor
KW  - Soft skills
KW  - Tertiary Education
KW  - Youth employment
N2  - In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and personalized coaching to university students in Tunisia. Undergraduates in the final year of licence appliquee were given the opportunity to graduate with a business plan instead of following the standard curriculum. This paper relies on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The analysis finds that the entrepreneurship track was effective in increasing self-employment among applicants, but that the effects are small in absolute terms. In addition, the employment rate among participants remains unchanged, pointing to a partial substitution from wage employment to self-employment. The evidence shows that the program fostered business skills, expanded networks, and affected a range of behavioral skills. Participation in the entrepreneurship track also heightened graduates? optimism toward the future shortly after the Tunisian revolution
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-6285
ER  -