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The informal sector in India has been exceptionally persistent over the past two decades. Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. This paper shows that a substantial share of the persistence in India's unorganized manufacturing sector is due to the rapid increase in female-owned businesses. Had...
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sector in India. How has the size and productivity of the plants in the organized sector affected the plants in the … on and responsive to organized sector presence than vice versa. Second, unorganized sector productivity is dependent on … and responsive to organized sector productivity and presence but the reverse is not true …
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This paper presents an exploration at the intersection of four important themes in the current development discourse: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation in the informal sector, it asks and answers...
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The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...
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business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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This paper analyzes the scale and productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian manufacturing using detailed … inputs display higher productivity, with the effects mostly concentrated among smaller plants with fewer than 50 employees … a more modest link to productivity outcomes …
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-level data from more than 100 countries to study how female-headed firms differ from male-headed firms in productivity level and … individualistic culture. On average, female-headed firms have 9 to 16 percent lower productivity and 1.6 percentage points lower labor … productivity growth, compared with male-headed firms. The disadvantage is mainly in manufacturing firms, largely nonexistent in …
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determinants of spatial variations in productivity for developed countries. However, the corresponding literature for developing … productivity premiums and different sources of agglomeration effects for 16 countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region … market access in explaining subnational productivity variations are assessed. The paper finds that citywide human capital …
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