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Reforms, entry and productivity : some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor); … - 2006

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...

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Does economic freedom moderate perceived corruption for firms in India?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Stivers, Adam - 2023

Available wisdom suggests that a negative relationship prevails between economic freedom and perceived corruption among firms. However, the relationship is far from linear and a number of complex interactions make it fairly nuanced. We show that greater competition may accentuate the problem of...

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Competition in the labor market : the wage effect of employer concentration in China

Liu, Jianan; Cai, Hongbo; Lin, Carl - 2024

regressions, we demonstrate that a decrease in employer concentration is significantly linked to higher wages. The elasticities of … employer concentration on wages fall within the range of -0.034 and -0.107. Additionally, our findings suggest that state … total factor productivity serves as an important channel linking employer concentration to wages. …

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ICT adoption and productivity in developing countries : new firm level evidence from Brazil and India

Basant, Rakesh; Commander, Simon; Harrison, Rupert; … - 2006

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the determinants of ICT adoption and its impact on performance in both countries. The descriptive evidence shows that Brazilian firms on average use ICT more intensively than their...

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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013

To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...

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Does management matter in schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019

We investigate the micro-level determinants of labor force participation of urban married women in eight low- and middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to understand what drives changes and differences in participation...

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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008

Trade unionism is a legislative system of organizing workers and raising voices for economic and social goods. As the process of global integration deepens the labour market become more flexible and fragmented, rendering collective organization more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the...

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Wage inequality and job insecurity among permanent and contract workers in India : evidence from organized manufacturing industries

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor); … - 2006

Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of permanent workers. This process has led to increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the...

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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that...

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