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INFORMAL WAGE AND FORMAL SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY : THEORY AND EVIDENCES FROM INDIA

Maiti, Dibyendu; Marjit, Sugata - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

We express a doubt on the conventional wisdom namely, of a positive relationship between wage and productivity, of a formal sector firm in a developing economy where the firm can either go for subcontracting to the informal sector to minimize wage cost along with apprehension of extra-legal cost...

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International Trade and Local Outsourcing

Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei; Xu, Xinpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

outsourcing due to the capital cost effect and the scale effect. We also unveil one source of productivity and formalize a link … the scale effect move against each other. Accordingly, the impacts of international trade on local outsourcing in export … intermediate goods encourages fragmentation and local outsourcing. …

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Transaction Cost, Technology Transfer and Mode of Organization

Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We develop a monopolistically competitive model for a closed economy without contract incompleteness. We show that if superior technology is not allowed to be transferred, integration would be the best mode of organization given that the transaction cost of intermediate input is sufficiently...

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