||assessment of tax administration as a constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4,<br>with 4 indicating a severe constraint). Higher values indicate land regulations are<br>more problematic.|
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|Labregs_hire|Labregs_hire is a country level variable that measures the difficulty of hiring<br>employees. Variable is anchored by an enterprise’s perception of the labor<br>regulations as a constraint (subjective categorical variable, capturing an enterprise’s<br>assessment of tax administration as a constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4,<br>with 4 indicating a severe constraint). Higher values indicate labor regulations are<br>more problematic.<br>Source: World Bank Doing Business Indicators (www.doingbusiness.org<br>)and<br>WorldBank Enterprise Surveys (www.enterprisesurveys.org<br>).|
|Labregs_hours|Labregs_hours is a country level variable that measures the rigidity of labor<br>regulations governing hours employees can work. Variable is anchored by an<br>enterprise’s perception of the labor regulations as a constraint (subjective<br>categorical variable, capturing an enterprise’s assessment of tax administration as a<br>constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4, with 4 indicating a severe constraint).<br>Higher values indicate labor regulations are more problematic.<br>Source: World Bank Doing Business Indicators(www.doingbusiness.org<br>)and<br>WorldBank Enterprise Surveys (www.enterprisesurveys.org<br>).|
|Labregs_rigid|Labregs_rigid is a country level variable that measures the rigidity of labor<br>regulations. Variable is anchored by an enterprise’s perception of the labor<br>regulations as a constraint (subjective categorical variable, capturing an enterprise’s<br>assessment of tax administration as a constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4,<br>with 4 indicating a severe constraint). Higher values indicate labor regulations are<br>more problematic.<br>Source: World Bank Doing Business Indicators (www.doingbusiness.org<br>)and<br>WorldBank Enterprise Surveys (www.enterprisesurveys.org<br>).|
|Labregs_fire|Labregs_fire is a country level variable that measures the difficulty of firing an<br>employee. Variable is anchored by an enterprise’s perception of the labor<br>regulations as a constraint (subjective categorical variable, capturing an enterprise’s<br>assessment of tax administration as a constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4,<br>with 4 indicating a severe constraint). Higher values indicate labor regulations are<br>more problematic.|
||<br>Source: World Bank Doing Business Indicators (www.doingbusiness.org<br>)and<br>WorldBank EnterpriseSurveys(wwwenterprisesurveysorg<br>)|
|Labregs_firecost|..<br>.<br>Labregs_firecost is a country level variable that measures the costs of firing an<br>employee. Variable is anchored by an enterprise’s perception of the labor<br>regulations as a constraint (subjective categorical variable, capturing an enterprise’s<br>assessment of tax administration as a constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4,<br>with 4 indicating a severe constraint). Higher values indicate labor regulations are<br>more problematic.<br>Source: World Bank Doing Business Indicators (www.doingbusiness.org<br>)and<br>WorldBank Enterprise Surveys (www.enterprisesurveys.org<br>).|
|Labregs_hirecost|Labregs_hirecost is a country level variable that measures the costs associated with<br>hiring an employee. Variable is anchored by an enterprise’s perception of the labor<br>regulations as a constraint (subjective categorical variable, capturing an enterprise’s<br>assessment of tax administration as a constraint to doing business. Scale of 1-4,<br>with 4 indicating a severe constraint). Higher values indicate labor regulations are<br>more problematic.<br>Source: World Bank Doing Business Indicators (www.doingbusiness.org<br>)and<br>WorldBank Enterprise Surveys (www.enterprisesurveys.org<br>).|
|Size|Size is an enterprise variable that measures the number of full-time permanent<br>employees at the enterprise.<br>Source: World Bank EnterpriseSurveys(www.enterprisesurveys.org).|

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