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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
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Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Privateand Foreign-Domestic Differentials Using LEEDfrom Hungary, 1986–2003
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Studies of public-private and foreign-domestic wage differentials face difficultiesdistinguishing ownership effects from correlated characteristics of workers and firms. Thispaper estimates these ownership differentials using linked employer-employee data (LEED)from Hungary containing 1.35mln...
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firms' Product and Labor Market Power
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2020
trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession …
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Labor Market Adjustment : Is Russia Different?
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...
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Accounting for Differences in Female Labor Force Participation between China and India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2019
Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages : Firm Level Evidence
Konings, Jozef - 2010
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for estimating production functions to control for the endogeneity of input factors and training is applied....
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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India
Dutta, Nabamita - 2011
India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic activities is one of the main reasons behind high...
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India : Evidence from Micro-Data
Kar, Saibal - 2012
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public and private sector workers. It tests the hypothesis that despite a lower level of public sector...
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