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100			_aSzerman, Christiane _939137
245			_aThe employee costs of corporate debarment in public procurement
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
300			_a15(1), Jan, 2023: p.411-441
520			_aThis paper studies an anticorruption policy—corporate debarment, or blacklisting—to understand how disclosing illicit corporate practices and the sanctions for these practices affect firm and worker outcomes. Exploiting a policy change in Brazil that imposed stricter penalties for corrupt firms, I find that debarment is associated with a sizable decline in employment and an increase in the probability of exiting the formal sector. I also document that workers' annual earnings fall after debarment. The impacts are driven by lost revenues from government contracts. The results shed light on the costs to workers in weighing the consequences of corruption crackdown.- Reproduced
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
906			_aEMPLOYMENT
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