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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? : Equilibrium Development Accounting across Indian Districts
Fan, Tianyu; Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and …
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The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014
-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches
Bartel, Ann P. - 2000
This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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Entrepreneurship During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from the Business Formation Statistics
Haltiwanger, John C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Applications for new businesses from the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly and weekly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued through May 2021. The pace of applications since...
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How Distortive are Turnover Taxes? Evidence from Replacing Turnover Tax with VAT
Xing, Jing; Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Hou, Xipei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this paper, we investigate distortions created by turnover taxes. As a natural experiment, we explore a reform that replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing industries remained unchanged. The reform increased...
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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of economic activities between services and corrmodities....
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