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This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a … complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based …
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competition from China. We do not find that Chinese import competition has a significant impact on the average wages of formal or …
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In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment … is affected by the China Shock, the future growth rates of export performance and informality are not. …
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We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between 1998 and 2013. We exploit the spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization. We found that the adjustment took various forms:...
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the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … increasing the interindustry wage premium. The worker-level results suggest that industry-level import penetration from China and …
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The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary literature. The important ones are absence of world class infrastructure, complex system of internal taxation, an unpredictable taxation environment, and regulations relating to land...
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One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of output and employment in this sector. We find that there are...
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