Empirical Evidence on Firm Growth
            and Jobs in Developing Countries

Buba, Johanne; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Rizvi, Anam

doi:10.1596/34958

collection.link.213	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/11866
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dc.contributor.author	Buba, Johanne
dc.contributor.author	Gonzalez, Alvaro
dc.contributor.author	Rizvi, Anam
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-22T18:59:41Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-22T18:59:41Z
dc.date.issued	2020-12-18
dc.date.lastModified	2021-09-16T21:32:15Z
dc.description.abstract	Economic growth does not contribute enough to job creation. As shown in Merotto, weber and Aterido (2018), a bit more than half of growth episodes contributed to reducing unemployment. A significant part of this relationship between growth and jobs is centered around firms. Firms are more likely to hire when growing. For that reason, any discussion on how to get more jobs needs to respond to questions about firm performance. This review discusses the barriers to firm growth and performance, namely limited access to finance, frictions on the labor market, lack of know-how, limited access to technology and the role of markets. It synthesizes the main lessons on firm growth from firm-level experiments that address these constraints and when possible, focuses on the impacts of these interventions on jobs. The objective is to provide evidence that can guide practitioners who seek to promote jobs in the context of private sector development programming.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/663591608534437178/Empirical-Evidence-on-Firm-Growth-and-Jobs-in-Developing-Countries
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34958
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Jobs Working Paper
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	EMPLOYMENT IMPACT
dc.subject	INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON
dc.subject	MACROECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT
dc.title	Empirical Evidence on Firm Growth and Jobs in Developing Countries	en
okr.date.disclosure	2020-12-21
okr.doctype	Publications & Research :: Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/663591608534437178/Empirical-Evidence-on-Firm-Growth-and-Jobs-in-Developing-Countries
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/34958
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0881389d3_2_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	32691118
okr.identifier.report	155244
okr.identifier.report	57
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/663591608534437178/pdf/Empirical-Evidence-on-Firm-Growth-and-Jobs-in-Developing-Countries.pdf	en
okr.topic	Social Protections and Labor :: Labor Markets
okr.topic	Private Sector Development :: Business Environment
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development :: Access to Finance
okr.unit	JOBS- CCSA - IBRD (HSPJB)

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