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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Finance, Gender, and Entrepreneurship : India's Informal Sector Firms

Gang, Ira N.; Khangembam, Indira; Sen, Kunal - 2021

what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …

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Improving Survey Quality Using Paradata : Lessons from the India Working Survey

Goel, Deepti; Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul - 2022

household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant field practices, and provides them feedback to … correct potentially faulty behavior. A novel feature is the emphasis on dynamic benchmarking within a group of enumerators …

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Measuring Small Business Dynamics and Employment with Private-Sector Real-Time Data

Kurmann, André; Lalé, Etienne; Ta, Lien - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of research using private-sector datasets to measure business dynamics and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of these datasets and how to distinguish business openings and closings from sample churn – i.e.,...

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Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies Through Business Apps Training : A Study of Small Firms

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The lack of awareness of digital services and outcomes is a concern in business environments since small firms need to improve their digital competencies. The present exploratory study investigated whether business apps training was associated with entrepreneurs' and firms' digital advancements....

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Artificial Intelligence and Reduced Smes' Business Risks. A Dynamic Capabilities Analysis During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

The study utilises the International Labor Organization's SMEs COVID-19 pandemic business risks scale to determine … whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are associated with reduced business risks for SMEs. A new 10-item scale was … collected from 317 SMEs between April and June 2020, with follow-up data gathered between October and December 2020 in London …

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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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Comparing Wage Gains from Small and Mass Scale Immigrant Legalization Programs

Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018

Large-scale immigrant legalization programs (such as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act or the IRCA) may produce supply shocks that may affect wages of newly legalized immigrants. The effect of supply shock may be especially relevant given that certain occupations have a high density...

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Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?

L'Haridon, Olivier - 2010

In this article, we use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm's matching model of unemployment. To the best of...

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The Investment in Job Training : Why are SMES Lagging so Much Behind?

Almeida, Rita - 2010

imperfections disproportionally affecting SMEs. Rather, our evidence is supportive of SMEs having a smaller expected return from the …

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