increased urbanization of the unorganized sector. …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … urbanized areas; (ii) This "urbanization gradient" also exists separately for the creation of female owned enterprises and male …

. The rapid urbanization of the informal sector plays the strongest role, while there is some evidence for subcontracting by … is strong, and varies across urban and rural areas in ways that bolster urbanization and subcontracting hypotheses. …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure has not. The results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …