Format:
1 Online-Ressource (circa 40 Seiten)
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Series Statement:
Policy research working paper 9093
Content:
Entrepreneurs in developing countries report that unreliable electricity imposes a serious constraint, yet little evidence exists on how blackouts impact the micro firms that account for the majority of employment. This paper estimates the effects of outages on small firms using original firm-level panel data and finds evidence of differential effects by firm size. Firms without employees experience large reductions in revenues and profits. Outages have no measurable effect on the output of firms with employees, where worker hours increase, weekly wages paid decrease, and the analysis fails to reject that blackouts have no effect on (average firm-level) worker hourly wages
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hardy Morgan Lights Off, Lights On: The Effects Of Electricity Shortages On Small Firms Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
Language:
English
Keywords:
Graue Literatur
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-9093
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