Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates

Patrick Premand, Stefanie Brodmann, Rita Almeida (), Rebekka Grun and Mahdi Barouni ()

World Development, 2016, vol. 77, issue C, 311-327

Abstract: Entrepreneurship education has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. In Tunisia, a curricular reform created an entrepreneurship track providing business training and coaching to help university students prepare a business plan. We rely on randomized assignment of the entrepreneurship track to identify impacts on students’ labor market outcomes one year after graduation. The entrepreneurship track led to a small increase in self-employment, but overall employment rates remained unchanged. Although business skills improved, effects on personality and entrepreneurial traits were mixed. The program nevertheless increased graduates’ aspirations toward the future.

Keywords: entrepreneurship education; training; self-employment; skills; program evaluation; randomized control trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Working Paper: Entrepreneurship Training and Self-Employment among University Graduates: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Tunisia (2012)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.08.028

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