Job Growth and Finance : Are Some Financial Institutions Better Suited to the Early Stages of Development than Others?

Evidence based on firm-level data from 89 countries with updated country-level data on financial structure suggests that in low-income countries; labor growth is more rapid in countries with a higher level of private credit/GDP. This positive relationship with private credit is especially pronounced...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cull, Robert, L. Colin, Xu
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21621