Political Connections Reduce Job Creation: Firm-level Evidence from Lebanon
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- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- D47 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Market Design
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
- J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
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