The Moravian-Silesian Region lies at the industrial core of the Czech Republic and has historically been dominated by state-run mining and heavy industries, particularly automotive manufacturing. Since...
This Brief examines issues related to women’s participation as workers, top managers, and owners of private firms in 27 European Union countries (EU-27), using the rich database of the World Bank Enterprise...
Using official employment surveys for 45 advanced economies and Latin American countries, this paper shows that the positive cross-country correlation between business size and GDP per capita is tighter...
This paper studies the effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the performance of firms in Central Asia. It uses unique data from the Business Pulse Survey run by the World Bank in the Kyrgyz Republic...
This paper estimates worker, firm and assistance programs’ responses to foreign shocks in Brazil exploiting quasi-experimental variation in firms’ foreign demand resulting from the Global Financial Crisis...
This paper studies the impact of a large payroll tax cut for older workers in Hungary. Motivated by the predictions of a standard equilibrium job search model, the paper examines the heterogeneous impact...
The report is organized in four chapters. Chapter one describes trends in growth, productivity, demography, employment, and living standards to inform the analysis of labor supply and labor demand carried...
The Business Pulse Surveys (BPS) is a global methodology to identify the impacts on firms of COVID through several channels. This survey was conducted in South Africa just after lifting severe restrictions...
In October 2021, firms reported that profit declined by an average of 66 percent compared to January 2021 - an improvement of 8 percentage points compared to August 2021. However, this finding was 7 percentage...
While low-skilled labor migration is not without cost, the list of benefits in host economies is long: low-skilled migrants enable natives to specialize in more highly paid jobs, reduce the cost of non-traded...