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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility

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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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

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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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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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When does foreign direct investment lead to inclusive growth?

Kang, Hyojung; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2021

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Does green re-industrialization pay off? : impacts on employment, wages and productivity

Frattini, Federico Fabio; Vona, Francesco; Bontadini, … - 2024

quantifies this question by employing observable and reliable data on green manufacturing production for an extensive set of EU … countries and 4-digit manufacturing industries for over a decade. First, at a descriptive level, this paper documents that …

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Weather and income : lessons from the main European regions

García-León, David - 2015

Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...

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Access to modern energy : a review of barriers, drivers and impacts

Bonan, Jacopo; Pareglio, Stefano; Tavoni, Massimo - 2016 - This version: 5 July 2016

Universal access to modern energy services, in terms of access to electricity and to modern cooking facilities, has been recognized as a fundamental challenge for development. Despite strong praise for action and the deployment of large-scale electrification programs and improved cookstove (ICS)...

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