Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential Enforcement
Almeida, Rita, Susanlı, Bilgen. This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size hroughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing regulations. Our findings strongly suggest that […]