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Development. We examine the role of financial constraints in SME growth, with emphasis on business cycles and credit access. We …
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In the past decade inclusive growth, that is job-rich growth, has topped the policy agenda in developing countries. This paper investigates how the access to finance affects employment in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It first presents a model where firm...
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We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history,...
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objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
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commercial sex market stems both from productivity and discrimination. In addition, including controls for personal …
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-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions …
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We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …
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The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...
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This paper demonstrates the effects of ethnic and religious diversity on the quality of public spaces. Its identification strategy relies on the exogeneity of public housing allocations in France, and thereby eliminates the bias from endogenous sorting. The paper uses micro evidence of social...
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current results indicate that discrimination against sexual orientation minorities in the Cypriot labour market is a matter of … disentangle statistical from taste-based discrimination in the labour market …
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