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Lights Off, Lights On : The Effects Of Electricity Shortages On Small Firms / Hardy, Morgan.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Hardy, Morgan.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blackout.
- Electric Power.
- Electricity Access.
- Energy.
- Firm Size.
- Infrastructure.
- Microenterprises.
- Private Sector Development.
- Private Sector Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Blackout.
- Electric Power.
- Electricity Access.
- Energy.
- Firm Size.
- Infrastructure.
- Microenterprises.
- Private Sector Development.
- Private Sector Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (40 pages)
- Other Title:
- Lights Off, Lights On
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Entrepreneurs in developing countries report that unreliable electricity imposes a serious constraint, yet little evidence exists on how blackouts impact the micro firms that account for the majority of employment. This paper estimates the effects of outages on small firms using original firm-level panel data and finds evidence of differential effects by firm size. Firms without employees experience large reductions in revenues and profits. Outages have no measurable effect on the output of firms with employees, where worker hours increase, weekly wages paid decrease, and the analysis fails to reject that blackouts have no effect on (average firm-level) worker hourly wages.
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