In discussing the inordinately low employment of Indian women in urban areas, several studies have argued that culture … employment in urban India is amenable to policy intervention, and that it is not necessary to wait for culture to change …

impact of corruption on employment growth among private firms. Using firm-level survey data for 109 countries, the analysis … finds that corruption has a much larger negative impact on employment growth for firms that are financially constrained … the bribery rate brings about a decline in the annual growth rate of employment of financially constrained firms that is 2 …