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managerial capital, combining both practices and attitudes, and link it with consistent estimates of firm-level productivity and … mark-up. Even though bias may still affect the estimation of the overall influence of managerial capital on productivity …
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technology by informal enterprises on labour productivity. Using a sample of non-farm informal enterprises in Nigeria, we employ … productivity is significantly higher for enterprises that use digital technology than for non-users. Further analysis reveals that …
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. When productivity is measured by profits per hectare, we estimate a positive effect of farm size on productivity. Results …
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A key policy problem in most developing countries is the size of the informal sector and its persistence over time. In need to increase their tax revenues, policy makers face a trade-off between decreasing tax rates (making formalizing potentially more attractive) and alternatively raising tax...
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We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our main contributions are: (i) providing new and...
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We examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal … productivity gaps observed at the lower end of the productivity distribution. Using decomposition methods, we find that about 73 … per cent of the productivity gap can be explained by structural effect, with the remainder being due to differences in …
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their suppliers and customers, and whether firms that bear such risks have higher firm productivity. Our country context is …
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Using a 10-year panel survey covering Vietnamese manufacturing firms, we consistently obtain firm-specific mark-up estimates and relate these to firm-level formality. The average firm-specific mark-up using a trans-log revenue production function specification is estimated to be 1,445, with...
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This study examines the effects of mining productivity shocks on the formal-informal duality in manufacturing and … productivity and skilled employment within informal and formal firms, and less by the incidence of firms sorting into the formal …
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This paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena. The results support the view of a heterogeneous...
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