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Title: Una mirada inicial al empresarismo como política pública para combatir la pobreza en Puerto Rico [Looking at entrepreneurship first as a public policy to combat poverty in Puerto Rico.]

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Se estudia el ámbito económico, social e institucional de las políticas de fomento al empresarismo presentando datos recientes sobre el mercado laboral, factores asociados a la pobreza en Puerto Rico y esfuerzos realizados para ampliar la participación laboral de sectores pobres. Se discuten conceptos vinculados al estudio del empresarismo y se identifican los programas públicos y privados que concentran esfuerzos en la creación de microempresas por personas pobres. Observamos dispersión y fragmentación en los esfuerzos dirigidos a promover el microempresarismo. No existe una política pública definida sobre el empresarismo como alternativa para incorporar a los pobres al mercado laboral formal. The economic, social and institutional framework of policies gear to promote entrepreneurship are studied by presenting recent data on the labor market, factors associated with poverty in Puerto Rico and efforts to expand the labor participation of the poor. We discuss concepts related to the study of entrepreneurship and identify public and private programs that concentrate efforts on the creation of microenterprises by poor people. Dispersion and fragmentation in efforts to promote micro-entrepreneurship are observed. There is no de ned policy towards the promotion of entrepreneurship as an alternative to incorporate the poor into formal labor markets.

Url: https://dire.upr.edu/handle/11721/1447

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Authors: Rodríguez Roldán, Norma; Segarra Alméstica, Eileen; Carrasquillo Casado, Bangie

Periodical (Full): Forum Empresarial

Issue: 2

Volume: 18

Pages: 1-37

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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