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Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing
Moreno-Monroy, Ana I.; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-17
analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this … subcontracting is positively related to employment growth only in the most modern segments of the informal sector. Increased … subcontracting cannot explain the persistently high employment in traditional informal manufacturing activities in India. Instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603714
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Subcontracting and the size and composition of the informal sector: Evidence from Indian manufacturing
Moreno, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector … fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal enterprises gained importance, while the informal sector continued to …' view on formal-informal production linkages, we test whether subcontracting is related to the size of more modern versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287721
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Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing
Moreno, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-17
analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this … subcontracting is positively related to employment growth only in the most modern segments of the informal sector. Increased … subcontracting cannot explain the persistently high employment in traditional informal manufacturing activities in India. Instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466445
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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Moreno-Monroy, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector … fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal enterprises gained importance, while the informal sector continued to …' view on formal-informal production linkages, we test whether subcontracting is related to the size of more modern versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262732
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Capital inflow, strategic subcontracting, and formal employment
Bansal, Renu; Maiti, Dibyendu - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014553273
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Trade Liberalisation, Subcontracting and Unionised Wage
Maiti, Dibyendu; Mukherjee, Arijit - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
welfare when a domestic firm strategically chooses the amount of formal in-house production and subcontracting to the informal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544188
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The long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19
This paper examines the relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda, using autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach. We find that the shadow economy and trade openness have a long- and short-run relationship. These results hold even when alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013183973
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Trade and women
Shepherd, Ben; Stone, Susan F. - 2017
This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591177
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Gender, informal employment and trade liberalization in Mexico
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Bombarda, Pamela - 2018
We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and non-tradable sectors. Using Mexican...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855338
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Unfolding trade effect in two margins of informality : the Peruvian case
Cisneros-Acevedo, Camila - 2021
This paper studies the effect of an increase in import competition on informality along two margins. I consider the extensive margin, where workers are hired by unregistered employers and the intensive margin, where even though jobs are carried out in registered firms, employees are off the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533985