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Regulation and UK retailing productivity: evidence from micro data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - 2009

with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …

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Monitoring costs, credit constraints and entrepreneurship

Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S. N.; Sen, Kunal - 2012

The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...

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Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

Bertrand, Marianne; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

this question in the context of the French retail trade industry. Since 1974, approval by regional zoning boards has been … required for the creation or extension of any large retail store in France. We exploit a unique database that provides time and … increase in large retail chains? concentration it induced, slowed down employment growth in France. …

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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

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Reforms, entry and productivity: some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis; … - 2006

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

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 …

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