Arbeitspapier
The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica
A randomized control trial with 945 entrepreneurs in Jamaica shows positive shortterm impacts of soft-skills training on business outcomes. The effects are concentrated among men, and disappear twelve months after the training. We argue that the main channel is increased adoption of recommended business practices, exclusively observed in the short run. We see persistent effects on an incentivized behavioral measure of perseverance after setbacks, a focus of this training. We compare a course focused only on soft-skills to one that combines soft-skills training with traditional business training. The effects of the combined training are never statistically significant.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12325
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
New Firms; Startups
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Subject
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business training
entrepreneurship
soft skills
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ubfal, Diego
Arraiz, Irani
Beuermann, Diether
Frese, Michael
Maffioli, Alessandro
Verch, Daniel
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ubfal, Diego
- Arraiz, Irani
- Beuermann, Diether
- Frese, Michael
- Maffioli, Alessandro
- Verch, Daniel
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2019
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