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Does corruption hurt employment growth of financially constrained firms more?

Amin, Mohammed; Yew Chong Soh - 2020

impact of corruption on employment growth among private firms. Using firm-level survey data for 109 countries, the analysis … finds that corruption has a much larger negative impact on employment growth for firms that are financially constrained … the bribery rate brings about a decline in the annual growth rate of employment of financially constrained firms that is 2 …

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Does paternity leave matter for female employment in developing economies? : evidence from firm-level data

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif; Sakhonchik, Alena - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 16/18, pp. 1145-1148

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Women managers and the gender-based gap in access to education : evidence from firm-level data in developing countries

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Do land market restrictions hinder structural change in a rural economy? : evidence from Sri Lanka

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Land market restrictions, women’s labor force participation, and wages in a rural economy

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2015

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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019

The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....

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Beyond dualism : agricultural productivity, small towns, and structural change in Bangladesh

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Employment multipliers over the business cycle

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Unequal laws and the disempowerment of women in the labor market : evidence from firm-level data

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On the allocation of resources in developing East Asia and Pacific

De Nicola, Francesca; Kehayova, Vera; Nguyen, Ha - 2018

Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher...

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