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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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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, Syed Ejaz - 2014
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2013
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 … experienced during 1996-2005 in business, professional and technical services i.e., in segments where China and India have been …
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The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2009
The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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The Rise of the Service Economy
Buera, Francisco J. - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of specialized high-skilled labor in the growth of the service sector as a share of the total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of...
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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War Ii
Fuchs, Victor R. - 2021
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
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The Rise of Services : The Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply
Buera, Francisco J. - 2013
This paper quantifies the roles of increases in the demand for skill-intensive output, the efficient scale of service production, and female labor supply in the growth of services. We extend the Buera and Kaboski (2012a,b) model to a two-person household, incorporating a joint decision on home...
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Economic Growth and the Rise of Service Employment
Fuchs, Victor R. - 2021
The distribution of employment among Agriculture, Industry, and Service within countries is closely related to the level of real Gross Domestic Product per capita. As real income rises, Agriculture's share falls, Service employment rises, and Industryâ€TMs share rises to a peak at about...
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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