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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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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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Spatial Growth and Industry Age

Desmet, Klaus - 2012

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory where local sectoral growth is driven by technological...

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On Average Establishment Size Across Sectors and Countriesy

Bento, Pedro - 2018

We construct a new dataset for the average employment size of establishments across sectors and countries from hundreds of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer countries. The cross-country income elasticity of...

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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : A Study of New Zealand Firms

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New Zealand. Using a large database that links administrative and tax data with survey data, we are able to control for large number of firm characteristics and thus minimise selection...

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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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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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Innovation-Led Transitions in Energy Supply

Lemoine, Derek - 2017

I generalize a benchmark model of directed technical change to allow innovations and factors of production (here energy resources) to be substitutes or complements. I show that a dominant sector is forever locked-in under substitutability but researchers' market incentives can drive a transition...

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Technological Progress and Economic Transformation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2021

Growth theory can go a long way toward accounting for phenomena linked with U.S. economic development. Some examples are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise in skill since 1800, (iii) the demise of child labor...

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The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

Petrin, Amil - 2011

We build up from the plant level an "aggregate(d)" Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant's contribution to the change in aggregate final demand between 1976 and 1996. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2010) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which...

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