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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

Liu, Runjuan - 2008

We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … outsourcing grew at rates experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where … China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R. - 2007

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Diasporas and Outsourcing : Evidence from oDesk and India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2012

This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk … diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract …

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Does management matter? : evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011

"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...

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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011

school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …

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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000

protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …

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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle

Hulten, Charles R. - 1999

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...

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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish - 1999

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …

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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance

Khanna, Tarun - 1999

-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …

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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...

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