informality as a continuum consisting of four degrees. The quantitative data includes 516 manufacturing enterprises which are … effects of formalization. It suggests that the most informal firms do not benefit from formalization due to their underlying … formalization and firm outcomes. Instead of applying a binary formality indicator, it constructs a conceptual framework that regards …

Using a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three … different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …

Using a novel panel survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we compare the performance of manufacturing firms by three … different informality definitions. The first is binary, based on whether firms pay taxes. The second captures five categories of …'s workers. Depending on the informality concept used, formalization has positive, insignificant, and negative performance …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … utilization. Resilience to violence differs widely across different types of employment within firms and across firms with … of the most affected firms and the channels through which they are affected. …

This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich … utilization. Resilience to violence differs widely across different types of employment within firms and across firms with … of the most affected firms and the channels through which they are affected. …

studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … controls for observable and unobservable differences across cities and firms as well as for product-specific business cycles …-intensity within firms. It also deters domestic, but not international, trade. The effect of the violence shock on firms is very …

studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … controls for observable and unobservable differences across cities and firms as well as for product-specific business cycles …-intensity within firms. It also deters domestic, but not international, trade. The effect of the violence shock on firms is very …

tax formalization, i.e. a firm’s decision to pay taxes. This positive association only holds for firms that were already …Using a unique panel survey of enterprises, we examine the relationship between four categories of formalization and … doubly robust estimators. The only formalization category that appears to be significantly associated with productivity is …

, the disaster hit some types of manufacturing firms much harder than others. For instance, businesses in the construction …This study investigates how manufacturing companies were affected by tropical Cyclone Idai, which struck Central …