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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...

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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth

Falck, Oliver - 2020

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation

Aronsson, Thomas - 2010

This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...

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Expressway to Power : Infrastructure Projects and Political Support

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Okoye, Dozie; Turan, Belgi - 2021

This paper provides causal evidence on how political parties consolidate power in an electoral democracy. We collect administrative data on expressway construction by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, and use province-by-year variation in expressway construction to show that...

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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …

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Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China

Sato, Hiroshi - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence...

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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India

Hazarika, Gautam - 2006

It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children's school attendance and work were highly substitutable activities, it would be advisable to quell work in the interest of schooling...

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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2014

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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