Similar Search Results

Narrow search

Infrastructure and Finance : Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network

Das, Abhiman; Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337823

Who Creates Jobs?

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O’Connell, Stephen D - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 70, pp. 1-7

initial levels of young and small firms and subsequent job growth, as evidenced in India. The economic geography of … entrepreneurship in India is still evolving. It is worrying that there are too few entrepreneurs in India for its stage of development …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393233

Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Kerr, William R.; O'Connell, Stephen D. - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 138-153

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777143

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2008

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian and Chinese patenting in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754945

The golden quadrilateral highway project and urban/rural manufacturing in India

Ghani, Ejaz; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R. - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201238