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This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …
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We study the role of formal institutions of contract enforcement in facilitating investments in small and medium firms(MSME). In a framework where established entrepreneurs can enforce contracts informally using their network ties and hierarchical advantage, we argue that an efficient formal...
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what directions? We take advantage of nationwide data collected in 2010/11 and 2015/16 by India's National Sample Survey … access in promoting entrepreneurship among informal sector firms in India. Our results are robust to alternative …
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in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for …
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more …
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state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results … inter-religion earnings differences to a great extent. -- inequality ; caste ; religion ; India …
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Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor … market. -- Childrenś schooling ; womenś work ; household allocation of time ; random effects ; India …
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resource management systems at two garment factories manufacturing for export in India. They make the same product for the same … management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …
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