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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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Does Forced Solidarity Hamper Investment in Small and Micro Enterprises?

Grimm, Michael - 2013

Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime'...

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Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms

Danziger, Leif - 2009

The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule. Since this turns these firms into...

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The Impact of Management Practices on SME Performance

Forth, John - 2018

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such …

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What Role Did Management Practices Play in SME Growth Post-Recession?

Bryson, Alex - 2016

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature … on SME growth by analysing longitudinal administrative data on firms' employment and turnover, taken from the UK …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …

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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

media, customer relationship management, payments, accounting and finance, and project management operations. Furthermore …

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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 developed to capture the use of AI applications in...

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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" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...

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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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