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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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This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …
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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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agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market. The empirical work is based on a general equilibrium … elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to … significant positive effect of agricultural productivity on rice yield and agricultural wages. Productivity shock increases wages …
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large reduction in trade costs on the pattern of structural change and agricultural productivity. The paper develops a … productivity gains through agglomeration in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. The model yields insights different from the … agricultural productivity despite significant de-industrialization; (ii) even with increased specialization in agriculture, the …
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