Market frictions, management and organisations

This project will study one potential explanation behind female owned enterprises showing lower returns than their male counterparts: lack of access to childcare services.

This project aims to run a pilot study in Bangladesh measuring differences in frictions that firms encounter in hiring and retaining workers of various skills.

This project aims to understand the impacts of a light touch management training on small firms in Kenya.

This project aims to provide some evidence on management in Ethiopia.

This project examines the importance of upstream and downstream market access for firm selection and growth in Pakistan’s manufacturing sector.

This project investigates the effects of subsidised or free disposable menstrual pads on worker’s well-being, health, and productivity.

This project studies which are the effects of private actors enforcing labour standards in Bangladesh on local firms and workers.

This project studies whether aspirational and soft touch job search skills interventions can contribute towards bridging the supply and demand side in promoting female employment in Pakistan.

This project seeks to provide stylised facts on the relationship between job reallocation, employment and productivity growth in the Zimbabwean manufacturing sector.

This study analyses the relationship between management practices and SMEs performances and the effect of the level of market competitiveness on upgrading management practices.