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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 6 Robustness

From: Financial inclusion and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) growth in Uganda

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Sample restricted SMEs domestic

Finance = Sh-sales-credit

Finance = sh-wkcap

Four alternative IC variables

Finance

0.00808 (0.00847)

− 0.0216 (0.0130)

− 0.0351*** (0.0118)

− 0.0773*** (0.0184)

(Micro)*Finance

− 0.00546 (0.00892)

0.0590*** (0.0166)

0.0597*** (0.0154)

0.0912*** (0.0214)

(Small)*Finance

− 0.00254 (0.0126)

0.0845*** (0.0154)

0.0728*** (0.0145)

0.111*** (0.0198)

(Medium)*Finance

 

0.0731*** (0.0183)

0.0737*** (0.0219)

0.105*** (0.0293)

Regulations

0.00337 (0.0129)

− 0.0199 (0.0441)

0.0407 (0.0577)

− 0.815*** (0.277)

(Micro)*Regulations

0.00161 (0.0193)

0.0268 (0.0443)

− 0.0301 (0.0575)

0.836*** (0.290)

(Small)*Regulations

0.00357 (0.0184)

0.00245 (0.0468)

− 0.0479 (0.0626)

0.839*** (0.274)

(Medium)*Regulations

 

0.0184 (0.0545)

− 0.0374 (0.0679)

1.004*** (0.283)

Corruption

− 0.756 (0.963)

0.685 (1.974)

1.681 (2.000)

− 3.428 (4.082)

(Micro)*Corruption

0.776 (1.101)

0.233 (2.108)

− 1.557 (2.107)

3.918 (4.453)

(Small)*Corruption

0.114 (1.258)

− 0.664 (2.071)

− 2.326 (2.122)

0.453 (4.159)

(Medium)*Corruption

 

− 0.501 (2.462)

− 1.015 (2.387)

3.470 (8.721)

Infrastructure

− 0.000362 (0.00166)

0.00335 (0.00331)

0.00826*** (0.00200)

0.0698** (0.0326)

(Micro)*Infrastructure

0.000210 (0.00165)

− 0.00289 (0.00340)

− 0.00731*** (0.00202)

− 0.0675* (0.0327)

(Small)*Infrastructure

− 0.000503 (0.00194)

− 0.00473 (0.00338)

− 0.00837*** (0.00200)

− 0.0738* (0.0355)

(Medium)*Infrastructure

 

− 0.00571 (0.00383)

− 0.00930*** (0.00217)

− 0.0598 (0.0401)

(Micro)

0.125 (0.413)

− 1.336 (1.151)

−0.114 (0.856)

− 4.842*** (1.178)

(Small)

− 0.0582 (0.349)

− 1.688 (1.086)

−0.415 (0.856)

− 5.506*** (1.075)

(Medium)

 

− 1.819 (1.270)

− 1.050 (1.027)

− 6.532*** (1.203)

Constant

1.487*** (0.440)

1.404 (0.887)

0.786 (0.783)

5.234*** (0.978)

Observations

508

611

611

610

R-squared

0.393

0.513

0.466

0.569

Firm Controls

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sector FE

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. Dependent variable: employment growth (Emp(t)-Emp(t-3))/((Emp(t) + Emp(t-3))/2)
  2. Standard errors clustered on location-sector-size; ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1