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China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …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 …
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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 … OECD cross-sections follow almost identical patterns of employment change. The decline of Agriculture is attributable …
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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 … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …
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While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts … whether it will continue growing rapidly. In particular, whether service-sector output and employment continue to grow in … implications for output than for employment …
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In many developing countries today, the structural transformation is a shift of employment out of agriculture into the … service sector. By contrast, industrial employment is mostly stagnant. Is the service sector an engine of growth and hence … productivity growth. In an application to India, we find that productivity growth in consumer services such as retail and …
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-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...
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We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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