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Firm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014

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dc.contributor.authorRuppert Bulmer, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorScutaru, Adrian
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-24T19:36:13Z
dc.date.available2018-10-24T19:36:13Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-01
dc.description.abstractParaguay has achieved positive employment outcomes over the last decade, reflecting more jobs and improved average job quality, which together contributed to significant poverty reduction. Firms played a major role in creating these jobs, especially formal jobs. It is important to understand how firm performance has translated into employment, the nature of the resulting jobs, and the factors affecting these outcomes. Using firm-level datasets, this analysis explores the characteristics of firms that are growing or stagnating; the sectors into which new firms are entering or incumbent firms are expanding their operations; and the factors that may be helping or hindering firms to enter, expand, or increase their productivity. High rates of informality and evasion create a challenging private sector environment for firms, but even among formal firms, the prevailing structure is characterized by micro-firms that lack scale economies, are concentrated in non-tradables, have generally low productivity levels, and rely on unskilled employment. The analysis also finds a pervasive duality between micro-sized low-productivity firms on one end, and a small number of highly productive firms in concentrated markets on the other end. These results imply some important challenges for the continued development of a healthy, dynamic and inclusive private sector.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110291537816310897/Firm-Productivity-and-Employment-in-Paraguay-2010-2014
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/30610
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/30610
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJobs Working Paper;No. 19
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectREGULATION
dc.subjectFIRM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectFIRM PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectFIRM SIZE
dc.subjectWAGES
dc.titleFirm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014en
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleFirm Productivity and Employment in Paraguay 2010-2014
okr.date.disclosure2018-10-09
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110291537816310897/Firm-Productivity-and-Employment-in-Paraguay-2010-2014
okr.guid110291537816310897
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/30610
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b086419056_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum30444920
okr.identifier.report130105
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okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/110291537816310897/pdf/9-10-2018-14-16-54-ParaguayFirmProductivityandEmploymentFinalOct.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryParaguay
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::Private Sector Economics
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitJOBS- CCSA - IBRD (GPSJB)
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