analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic activity (agriculture, manufacturing and …

This paper explores the causes of India's productivity surge around 1980, more than a decade before serious economic … of existing businesses rather than new entrants or consumers. A relatively small shift elicited a large productivity … response, because India was far away from its income-possibility frontier. Registered manufacturing, which had been built up in …

. While the importance of services rather than manufacturing is widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill …-intensive rather than laborintensive manufacturing, and industries with higher-than-average scale. Some of these distinctive patterns …

productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the … greater competition and at liberalizing key aspects of economic activity. This paper investigates productivity trends in India …'s (registered) manufacturing sectors during the 1980s and 1990s. The main findings of the paper are (i) labor and total factor …

The notable rebound of U.S. manufacturing activity following the Great Recession has raised the question of whether the … labor costs have had a positive impact on U.S. manufacturing production. While we find it unlikely for manufacturing to … become a main engine of growth in the United States, we find that U.S. manufacturing exports could provide nonnegligible …