Returns to Micro-Entrepreneurship in an Emerging Economy: A Quantile Study of Entrepreneurial Indonesian Households’ Welfare

Virginie Vial and Julien Hanoteau

World Development, 2015, vol. 74, issue C, 142-157

Abstract: Presenting low individual returns, but providing households with livelihoods and means to cope with economic vulnerability, micro-entrepreneurship’s evaluation should include both context and heterogeneity. Using a four-wave panel of 9,157 Indonesian households, this study proposes a quantile estimation of micro-entrepreneurship’s effects on four household-level complementary measures of welfare – income, consumption, household, and total assets. It evidences substantial positive but decreasing effects on the four measures, with the highest relative returns for the poorest. For this category, micro-entrepreneurship primarily provides returns in the form of income, translating into higher relative consumption, but more importantly, into a greater relative assets accumulation.

Keywords: micro-entrepreneurship; self-employment; economic welfare; Indonesia; quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.04.008

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