Access to an educated workforce and the performance of private firms during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper uses data on private firms in 24 developing countries to show that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, firms with greater obstacles in accessing an educated workforce have lower performance than other firms. The findings are robust to the comprehensive inclusion of relevant control variables a...

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Main Authors: Omar Farooq, Mukhammadfoik Bakhadirov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-11-01
Series:Borsa Istanbul Review
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221484502200062X