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Trade, jobs, and inequality
Beaton, Kimberly; Cerra, Valerie; Hadzi-Vaskov, Metodij - 2021
This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …
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Private sector job creation in MENA : prioritizing the reform agenda
Baduel, Bénédicte; Geginat, Carolin; Pierre, Gaëlle - 2019
environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance … to electricity are found to explain a significant part of the lack of employment growth in MENA firms compared to their …
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The size distribution of manufacturing plants and development
Kothari, Siddharth - 2014
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Judicial system reform in Italy : a key to growth
Esposito, Gianluca; Lanau, Sergi; Pompe, Sebastiaan - 2014
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The net stable funding ratio : impact and issues for consideration
Gobat, Jeanne; Yanase, Mamoru; Maloney, Joseph - 2014
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Small and vulnerable : small firm productivity in the great productivity slowdown
Chen, Sophia; Lee, Do - 2020
We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the Global Financial Crisis. The TFP growth of smaller firms was more adversely affected and diverged from their larger counterparts after the crisis. The impact was progressively...
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Firm size, life cycle dynamics and growth constraints : evidence from Mexico
Misch, Florian; Saborowski, Christian - 2019
This paper examines the variation in life cycle growth across the universe of Mexican firms. We establish two stylized facts to motivate our analysis: first, we show that firm size matters for development by illustrating a close correlation with state-level per capita incomes. Second, we show...
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Global declining competition
Díez, Federico J.; Fan, Jiayue; Villegas-Sánchez, Carolina - 2019
Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from 20 countries, we document five stylized facts on market power in global markets. First, competition has declined around the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm markups during 2000- 2015. Second, the markup...
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The right kind of help? : tax incentives for staying small
Benedek, Dora; Budina, Nina; Deb, Pragyan; Gracia, Borja; … - 2017
Some countries support smaller firms through tax incentives in an effort to stimulate job creation and startups, or alleviate specific distortions, such as financial constraints or high regulatory or tax compliance costs. In addition to fiscal costs, tax incentives that discriminate by firm size...
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Identifying binding constraints to growth : does firm size matter?
Vargas, Jose P. Mauricio - 2015
As emphasized by Hausmann, Rodrik and Velasco, the policy challenge of boosting growth requires prioritization and identifying what are the most binding constraints. This paper draws on firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, which suggests that the obstacles for the functioning...
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