Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021
Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds important effects of access to finance …, 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 …