The Impact of Emergency Job Retention Assistance on Labor Market Outcomes for Informal Firms and Workers in Ghana
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Línea de tiempo:
Initiative(s):
Jobs and Opportunity Initiative
Grupo objetivo:
- Small and medium enterprises
- Informal workers
Resultado de interés:
- Employment
- Firm survival and sustainability
Tipo de intervención:
- Cash transfers
- Conditional cash transfers
- COVID-19 response
- Unconditional cash transfers
Número de registro del AEA RCT Registry:
https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/8833
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A large share of workers in sub-Saharan Africa work in informal firms and lack access to formal unemployment insurance. Researchers are conducting a randomized evaluation to test the impact of providing emergency job retention assistance to firms and workers on firm survival, worker-firm match survival, and labor market outcomes for firm owners and workers in Ghana’s informal sector. Research is ongoing; results are forthcoming.