Fox, Louise; Oviedo, Ana Maria - In: Journal of African Economies 22 (2013) 4, pp. 616-650
We use firm-level survey data from the manufacturing sector in 20 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and Doing Business (DB) country indicators to explore the links between employment protection regulation (EPR) and firm job growth during the period 2003–07. We find that EPR is uncorrelated...