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This paper studies the trends and cycles of informal employment. It first presents a theoretical model where the size of informal employment is determined by the relative costs and benefits of informality and the distribution of workers' skills. In the long run, informal employment varies with...
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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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, capital, and productivity growth. The paper models the behavior of the informal sector based on the following fundamental … asymmetry: formal firms confront higher labor costs while informal firms face higher capital costs and lower productivity. Using …
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This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation … representing each of the main categories of productivity determinants and, combining them through principal component 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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