Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper characterizes the firm size distribution by exploiting establishment-level censuses covering both formal and informal firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds a "missing middle" in the employment-based size distribution of firms in four Sub-Saharan African countries. This &q...
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| Summary: | This paper characterizes the firm size distribution by exploiting establishment-level censuses covering both formal and informal firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds a "missing middle" in the employment-based size distribution of firms in four Sub-Saharan African countries. This "missing middle" hinges on the inclusion of informal firms, and it is not explained by state- or foreign-owned firms at the top of the size distribution, nor does it emerge from the size distribution of entrants. The paper reconciles these empirical results with a model of firm dynamics with endogenous informality and shows that calibrated values of entry barriers and productivity-dependent idiosyncratic distortions generate a "missing middle" that is consistent with its underlying drivers in the data |
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| DOI: | 10.1596/1813-9450-10233 |
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| title | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_auth | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_exact_search | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_exact_search_txtP | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_full | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa Kaleb Girma Abreha |
| title_fullStr | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa Kaleb Girma Abreha |
| title_full_unstemmed | Deconstructing the Missing Middle Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa Kaleb Girma Abreha |
| title_short | Deconstructing the Missing Middle |
| title_sort | deconstructing the missing middle informality and growth of firms in sub saharan africa |
| title_sub | Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| topic | Employment and Unemployment Endodgenous Informality Establishment Concensus Firm Size Distribution Inclusion of Informal Firms Informality Labor and Employment Law Law and Development Manufacturing Market Distortion Microenterprises Missing Middle Poverty Reduction Private Sector Development Small and Medium Size Enterprises |
| topic_facet | Employment and Unemployment Endodgenous Informality Establishment Concensus Firm Size Distribution Inclusion of Informal Firms Informality Labor and Employment Law Law and Development Manufacturing Market Distortion Microenterprises Missing Middle Poverty Reduction Private Sector Development Small and Medium Size Enterprises |
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