Informal sector competition and firm productivity

Arlette Beltrán

doi:10.1080/13504851.2019.1676383

Informal sector competition and firm productivity

Arlette Beltrán

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Abstract

We provide evidence on whether informal competition has a negative bearing on firm productivity in the formal sector. To do this we employ the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey (WBES) with detailed information for more than sixty thousand manufacturing and services formal firms from over 127 countries. We find a negative association between these two variables, which is further supported when using instrumental variables.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1243-1246
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	27
Issue number	15
Early online date	11 Oct 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1676383
State	Published - 1 Sep 2020

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Keywords

Productivity
competition
developing countries
informality

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