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Small and medium enterprises, growth, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523259
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The informal sector, firm dynamics, and institutional participation
Levenson, Alec Robert - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524952
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Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries
Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - 2013
The majority of microenterprises in most developing countries remain informal despite more than a decade of reforms aimed at making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. This paper summarizes the evidence on the effects of entry reforms and related policy actions to promote firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560112
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Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income
Korinek, Anton - 2005
the method on the Current Population Survey for the United States, they find that the compliance probability falls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522656
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Talk or Text? : Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; … - 2022
-19 lockdown, this study randomly selected about 600 adults in El Salvador to survey using two different tools: telephone … interviews or a self-completion survey via WhatsApp. The findings show that phone-based surveys increase the rate of survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254942
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Private But Misunderstood? : Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; Kumar, Naresh; Park, … - 2022
Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) due to several social and psychological factors. This study conducts a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via self-interviewing (SI) or face-to-face interviewing. About a third of women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545349
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Misunderestimating Corruption
Kraay, Aart; Murrell, Peter - 2013
officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and … legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to … combination of conventional and random-response survey questions. The responses to these different types of questions reflect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560093
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Interviewer Effects in Subjective Survey Questions
Himelein, Kristen - 2015
There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564360
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Small businesses in South Africa : who outsources tax compliance work and why?
Coolidge, Jacqueline G. - 2009
"The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394167