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This paper is part of a broader research program to which the two coauthors have contributed equally and which has benefitted from funding from the Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory, the World Bank’s Vietnam country office, the United Kingdom’s DFID, the National University of Singapore, and the Musim Mas Foundation. The authors are again grateful to their terrific collaborators in Vietnam. This includes the project manager, Duong (Candice) Cam; the legal department at the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Dau Anh Tuan and Ta Thanh Hoa; Mekong Development Research Institute’s Nguyen Viet Cuong, Phung Duc Tung, and Nguyen Thi Nhung; and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affair’s Nguyen Anh Tho. They are also thankful for excellent feedback on this specific paper from the special issue editors and three anonymous reviewers as well as from presentation audiences at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Chicago, the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Denver, ESSEC Business School in Singapore, Munich Technical University, and National University of Singapore Business School.