文件与报告库
-
Female-Owned Firms during the COVID-19 Crisis (英语)
This brief use firm-level data collected between May 2020 and May 2021 in 41 countries, to provide descriptive evidence on the differential effect of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis on female-...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 162280 文件日期: 2021年7月29日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Karalashvili,Nona,Muzi,Silvia,Viganola,Domenico
-
Productivity and Firm Exit during the COVID-19 Crisis : Cross-Country Evidence (英语)
This paper examines whether the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic exhibits a Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using firm-level data for 31 economies, the study finds that...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS9671 文件日期: 2021年5月24日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Muzi,Silvia,Jolevski,Filip,Ueda,Kohei,Viganola,Domenico
-
Do Crises hit Female-Managed and Male-Managed Firms Differently? Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis (英语)
While efforts are currently in place to collect data on the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this note looks at the experience of the 2008 financial crisis to gain insights on possible differential...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 152886 文件日期: 2020年9月10日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Ahmed,Tanima,Muzi,Silvia,Ueda,Kohei
-
Mobile Money and Investment by Women Businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa (英语)
This study connects two important findings in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, digital technologies such as mobile money have become widespread and have increased investment by businesses, especially in East...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS9338 文件日期: 2020年7月27日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Islam,Asif Mohammed,Muzi,Silvia
-
Firms' Discriminatory Behavior, and Women's Employment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (英语)
This paper contributes to better understanding firms' discriminatory behavior in the presence of gender-based legal discrimination and its linkages with labor market outcomes for women in a developing...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS9224 文件日期: 2020年4月28日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Hyland,Marie Caitriona,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Muzi,Silvia
-
Unequal laws and the disempowerment of women in the labor market : evidence from firm-level data (英语)
Institutions are defined as the set of rules that govern human interactions. When these rules are discriminatory, they may disempower segments of a population in the economic spheres of activity. This...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8202 文件日期: 2017年9月21日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Islam,Asif Mohammed,Muzi,Silvia,Amin,Mohammad
-
Does mobile money use increase firms' investment ? evidence from enterprise Surveys in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (英语)
Private investment can be an important engine of economic growth in East African countries, which, despite recent growth rates, are still plagued with adverse economic conditions. Against this backdrop...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7890 文件日期: 2016年11月14日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Islam,Asif Mohammed,Muzi,Silvia,Rodriguez Meza,Jorge Luis
-
Measuring firm-level innovation using short questionnaires : evidence from an experiment (英语)
Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7696 文件日期: 2016年6月6日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Cirera,Xavier,Muzi,Silvia
-
Labor market regulations and outcomes in Sweden : a comparative analysis of recent trends (英语)
This paper analyzes recent trends in Sweden's labor market regulations in relation to comparator economies and examines the relationship between labor market regulations and outcomes. The paper finds that...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7229 文件日期: 2015年4月2日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Ulku,Hulya,Muzi,Silvia