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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:38:26am WEST
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F02: Small Firms, Informality, and Simplified Tax Regimes Location: Room 102 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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Making Employers: The Effects of Supporting First Hires in a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment 1: VATT Institute for Economic Research, Finland; 2: Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research; 3: Helsinki Graduate School of Economics Most entrepreneurs operate without employees. Hiring may be unprofitable for them, but they may also be reluctant to pay the one-time costs of becoming an employer due to attentional costs, risk aversion, or credit constraints. We examine the extent to which a temporary subsidy to hire first employees induces entrepreneurs to become employers in a large-scale randomized experiment. The experiment offered to 34,500 randomly selected non-employer entrepreneurs e10,000 to cover 50% of the wage costs of first employees. We find a 20% increase in the fraction of firms that hire workers, with effects of similar magnitude on wage costs and number of employees. The effects stay positive at 7% after the subsidy period, indicating that the temporary subsidy created new permanent employers. Our results suggest that frictions in hiring first employees can be an important barrier for employer entry and firm growth.
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