, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure … into the ranks of the SMEs. -- Employment growth ; investment climate ; corruption ; regulatory framework ; finance …

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on … the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher … host corruption will be associated with higher foreign ownership. However, costs may exceed or exactly compensate the …

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust …

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium … and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate … levels of educational attainment, however, increases at initial levels of corruption and then decreases beyond a certain …