Recent Articles
Gender Disparity in Laws and Female Employment, Mimeograph (2012)
In a large sample of firms in 66 developing countries, it is shown that gender...
Is There More Corruption in Larger Countries? Evidence Using Firm-level Data, Mimeograph (2011)
Existing studies show that the impact of country size on the level of corruption is...
Does Country Size Matter for Tax Rates?, Mimeograph (2011)
Repeated attempts at uncovering the impact of country size on various socio-economic factors have shown...
Does Country Size Matter? (Short Note), Mimeograph (2011)
With the exception of trade openness, existing studies have failed to find any significant impact...
Education and the Structure of Informal Firms in Latin America (Short Note), Mimeograph (2011)
A recent survey of unregistered or informal firms in Argentina and Peru shows that about...
Short Notes
Gender and Informality (A short note) (2010)
For a sample of informal firms in Burkina Faso, Cameroons, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Madagascar...
Challenges of Retailing in India (A Short Note) (2010)
Using Enterprise Surveys data on 1,948 retails stores in India, this note highlights the key...
Immigrants in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Africa (Short Note), Mimeograph (2010)
A survey of informal businesses in Burkina Faso, Cameroons and Cape Verde shows that roughly...
Necessity vs. Opportunity Entrepreneurs in the Informal sector (Short Note), Mimeograph (2009)
Some informal businesses are started to take advantage of business opportunities (opportunity firms) while others...
How different are service and manufacturing firms in the informal sector? (Short Note), Mimeograph (2009)
A comparison of service and manufacturing firms in the informal sector shows that service firms...
Popular Press
Migration from Zambia: Ensuring Temporariness through Cooperation (with Aaditya Mattoo), Working Paper Series, World Bank (2009)
The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support...
Retailing in India: Assessing the Investment Climate, India Economy Review (2008)
An overview of the business climate for the retail sector in India is provided using...
Other Papers
What Firms Know (2008)
A large literature shows that common law countries perform better than civil law countries along...
Labor Regulation and Employment in India’s Retail Stores, forthcoming, Journal of Comparative Economics (2008)
A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India shows that 27% of the stores...