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Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015

The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … regulations, focusing on the enactments and provisions that inhibit flexibility of manufacturing enterprises in adapting to swift …

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The labor market power of exporting firms : evidence from Latin America

Amodio, Francesco; Brancati, Emanuele; Roux, Nicolás de; … - 2024

Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...

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Do labor market regulations affect the link between innovation and employment? : evidence from Latin America

Baensch, Laura; Lanzalot, Maria Laura; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2018

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate the model developed by Harrison et al. (2014) using...

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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone

Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014

This is an update and revision of our 2009 study. Using a broad dataset and an original methodology, this paper reports composite development gaps across economic, social and institutional sectors. We define development gap as the distance between the observed and the expected development level...

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Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina : implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento

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What are the fiscal limits for the developing economies of Central America and the Caribbean?

Ramirez, Francisco A.; Wright, Allan - 2017

This study uses simulations of state-dependent distributions of fiscal limits for 18 economies in Central America and the Caribbean to better understand governments' ability to service their debt, arising from endogenously determined dynamic Laffer curves. Using a small, open economy model to...

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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014

Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector … output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …

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Industrial robots, and information and communication technology : the employment effects in EU labour markets

Jestl, Stefan - 2022

on regional total employment dynamics. However, employment effects differ between manufacturing and non-manufacturing … industries. Industrial robots show negative employment effects in local manufacturing industries, but positive employment effects … in local non-manufacturing industries. While the negative effect is concentrated in particular local manufacturing …

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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015

referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … manufacturing sector across a spectrum of industries, this increasing contractualisation of the workforce has not been typically … the use of 'contract' workers in formal manufacturing. These empirical patterns help us generate hypotheses for further …

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When does foreign direct investment lead to inclusive growth?

Kang, Hyojung; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2021

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