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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier - 2011

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...

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

Almeida, Rita - 2010

investment in job training than larger firms. Therefore, our findings call for caution when designing pro-SME policies fostering …

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'Entrepreneurs Out of Necessity' : A Snapshot

Poschke, Markus - 2010

"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms to grow less, but are likely to stay in the market. This evidence is a challenge for existing...

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution : Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Job Creation by Firms in Denmark

Ibsen, Rikke - 2011

In this paper we will look at job creation and destruction in firms. We will answer the question if it is the large companies that create jobs, while the smaller companies are contributing much less. Or is it the young companies that create jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis...

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hâle - 2022

longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005 2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …

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A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009

Duval-Hernández, Robert - 2009

This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are …

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Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder : Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Voicu, Alexandru - 2021

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...

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Remittances and Income Smoothing

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina - 2011

Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of remittances in either alleviating or increasing household income volatility using Mexican household...

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The NAFTA Tide : Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Calderón Madrid, Angel - 2008

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants' responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

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