Documents et rapports
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Understanding Women’s Lower Participation than Men as Workers, Top Managers, and Owners in Private Firms in the EU-27 Countries (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 197384 Date du document: 22 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Educated Workers and Managers in the EU-27 (anglais)
This Brief highlights issues related to the education and skill level of workers and top managers in firms in 27 European Union countries (the EU-27), using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES). The...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 197382 Date du document: 22 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Does Competition from Informal Firms Encourage the Formal Firms to Obtain Quality Certificates ? (anglais)
This study investigates the impact of competition from informal or unregistered firms on the likelihood of formal manufacturing small and medium-size enterprises obtaining internationally recognized quality...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS11023 Date du document: 8 janvier 2025 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad,Nogueira, Caroline
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The Impact of Market Volatility on Hotel Efficiency in Malaysia : Does Hotel Size Matter ? (anglais)
It is often argued that small firms are more flexible than large firms. As a result, small firms perform better in volatile markets compared to large firms. The present paper explores this idea for a representative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10953 Date du document: 22 octobre 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad,Ali, Nesma
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Presence of women in top managerial positions (anglais)
The presence of female top managers in the private sector signals the existence of high paying jobs for women and also serves as further encouragement for other women to seek better employment. This note...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 92276 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad,Islam,Asif Mohammed
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Education and the structure of informal firms in Latin America (anglais)
A recent survey of unregistered or informal firms in Argentina and Peru shows that about 74 percent of the owners have a secondary or higher education. This note compared firms by the education level of...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 63665 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Competition and demographics in large Indian cities (anglais)
Recent studies suggest that consumer-household attributes may be as important in determining the level of competition in certain markets as firm characteristics and the number of firms. However, evidence...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79454 Date du document: 1 août 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Necessity vs. opportunity entrepreneurs in the informal sector (anglais)
Some informal or unregistered businesses are established to take advantage of business opportunities (opportunity firms) while others are established because the owner cannot find a satisfactory job (necessity...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60351 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Gender and informality (anglais)
From a sample of informal firms in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius, this note compares male, and female-owned businesses. The author test a number of hypotheses...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60350 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Challenges of retailing in India (anglais)
The retail and wholesale sector in India is one of the largest sectors, contributing 14 percent to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 10 percent to formal employment. The sector has also shown...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60346 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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How do manufacturing and service firms differ within the informal sector? (anglais)
A comparison of service and manufacturing firms in the informal or unregistered sector in Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Mauritius shows that service firms are larger in terms of total sales and also generate...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 60349 Date du document: 1 janvier 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Labor productivity in the informal sector : necessity vs. Opportunity firms (anglais)
Differences between opportunity and necessity firms within the informal sector have long been debated. This paper revisits this debate using a new dataset of informal firms in three African countries...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 53031 Date du document: 1 décembre 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Crime, security, and firms in Latin America (anglais)
Existing studies show that crime is more rampant in the larger cities and that wealthier individuals are more often targeted. Using enterprise surveys data for 14 Latin American countries, the author find...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 50339 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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The cost of registering property : does legal origin matter? (anglais)
There is a large literature that finds that common law countries perform better than civil law countries in various aspects of the institutional environment. The present paper extends these findings to...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 46565 Date du document: 1 octobre 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad, Ibrahim Haidar, Jamal
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Labor regulation and employment in India's retail stores (anglais)
A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India shows that 27 percent of the stores find labor regulations as a problem for their business. Using these data, author analyzes the effect of labor regulations...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 44492 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Competition and labor productivity in India's retail stores (anglais)
The paper analyzes the effect of product market competition on the average productivity of labor in India's retail sector. The author use a new dataset of 1,948 retail stores located in 41 cities of India...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 46568 Date du document: 1 août 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad
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Migration from Zambia : ensuring temporariness through cooperation (anglais)
The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4145 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Do institutions matter more for services ? (anglais)
Recent empirical research has focused on the role of institutions in overall economic performance. This paper examines the impact of institutions on the relative performance of the service sector. Through...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4032 Date du document: 1 octobre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad,Mattoo,Aaditya