While there has been extensive research on the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages, there has been little on the impact on firm performance, prices, and quality. Exploiting the staggered changes in minimum wages in the US over 2000 to 2008 and using comprehensive data on the hotel...

This paper investigates the effect of access to finance on job growth in 50,000 firms across 70 eveloping countries. Using the introduction of credit bureaus as an exogenous shock to the supply of credit, the paper finds that increased access to finance results in higher employment growth,...

This paper investigates the effect of access to finance on job growth in 50,000 firms across 70 developing countries. Using the introduction of credit bureaus as an exogenous shock to the supply of credit, the paper finds that increased access to finance results in higher employment growth,...