Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …

-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …

, 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 …

From the early 1990s onwards, India has engaged in policies involving trade liberalisation, strong controls on debt …

rich to poor countries. In this paper we consider a natural experiment: using China as the treated country and India as the …-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative to that of India, and, simultaneously, relative … FDI inflows into China vs. India declined. These observations are explained in the context of a simple neoclassical OLG …