TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friesenbichler,Klaus
AU  - Friesenbichler,Klaus
TI  - Employment Growth Patterns in South Asia Some Evidence from Interim Enterprise Survey Data
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Achieving Shared Growth
KW  - Conflict
KW  - Economic Growth
KW  - Employment growth
KW  - Expansion
KW  - Finance and Financial Sector Development
KW  - Firm growth
KW  - Firm size
KW  - Gibrat's law
KW  - Labor Markets
KW  - Microfinance
KW  - Private Sector Development
KW  - Rural
KW  - Security
KW  - Small Scale Enterprise
KW  - Urban
KW  - War
KW  - South Asia
N2  - This paper analyzes firm growth patterns in South Asia, using establishment level data from an Interim Enterprise Survey. The survey was conducted by the World Bank in 2009 and 2010 and covers seven countries in the region. The first finding suggests that size in the base year gains importance for employment growth and firm age is statistically insignificant for growth. This contradicts the thought that young and small firms are the bearers of growth. Second, establishments in larger localities expanded faster, confirming the observation of urban centers as growth poles. Third, establishments in areas of severe conflict performed worse than establishments in other areas. Interestingly, the distribution of growth rates shows that both firm growth and fast-growing firms exist in conflict regions
UR  - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/1813-9450-5856
ER  -