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The Sweatshop Dilemma

Geoff Riley

27th October 2016

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The perennial debate about whether low-wage, arduous and often hazardous work in light manufacturing is beneficial to those employed in such jobs has been given a new twist.

Tim Harford reports here on a randonmised controlled trial in the fast-growing country of Ethiopia in which one group was given cash (with no strings attached) and five days of enterprise training instead of the job they had applied for. The results are complicated but hint that direct cash transfers and small-scale investment in human capital can yield significant results.

You can access the key findings of this research report here


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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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