Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms?
This article uses representative data for firms for Latin American firms and show that corruption decreases employment in firms. This result is robust to changes in specification and also consistent with the use of an instrumental variables approach. Corruption appears to negatively impact the growt...
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okr-10986-226982021-04-23T14:04:10Z Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms? Beltrán, Arlette corruption bribes employment This article uses representative data for firms for Latin American firms and show that corruption decreases employment in firms. This result is robust to changes in specification and also consistent with the use of an instrumental variables approach. Corruption appears to negatively impact the growth and wealth in a country, not by introducing labour distortion in firms, but by keeping them small. 2015-09-28T16:51:12Z 2015-09-28T16:51:12Z 2015-08-17 Journal Article Applied Economics Letters 1350-4851 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22698 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Caribbean Latin America |
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This article uses representative data for firms for Latin American firms and show that corruption decreases employment in firms. This result is robust to changes in specification and also consistent with the use of an instrumental variables approach. Corruption appears to negatively impact the growth and wealth in a country, not by introducing labour distortion in firms, but by keeping them small. |
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Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms? |
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Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms? |
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Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms? |
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Does Corruption Increase or Decrease Employment in Firms? |
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Taylor and Francis |
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