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Improving the labor market outcomes of minorities: the role of employment quota
Prakash, Nishith - 2009
exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …
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Asia's international production networks: Will India be the next assembly centre?
Sen, Rahul; Srivastava, Sadhana - 2012
This paper analyses the current state of participation of India in the international production networks (IPNs) of … manufacturing industries in Asia, and identifies the constraints and challenges for India's deeper participation in the near future … comparative advantage in Parts and Components (P&C) in India's manufacturing sector are analysed separately from that of total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287917
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Can India become an export platform for global operations of Japanese and American multinational corporations affiliates?
Yamashita, Nobuaki - 2012
(MNC) affiliates in India compared to the case of China, using the unique affiliate-level data. The study shows that … Japanese MNCs in India follow the typical MNC expansion strategy in that rapidly growing emerging economy with a focus on the … that India will grow as an export platform similar to China because of the former country's unique FDI experiences and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287931
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Why is the public sector more labor-intensive?
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
A relatively high labor-intensity in government-run entities need not imply slack in their organization. Rather, it is a rational reaction to various forms of wage tax advantage that the public sector has over private firms. Even though an unequal tax treatment of public and private sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261245
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Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? : A Distortionary Tax Argument
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2004
Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a rational response to its wage tax advantage over private firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262155
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A Neo-Schumpeterian approach towards public sector economics
Hanusch, Horst; Pyka, Andreas; Wackermann, Florian - 2009
Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation....
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Total reward in the UK in the public and private sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter J. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278521
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Wage structure and public sector employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970 - 2002
Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - 2006
Swedish census data and tax records reveal an astonishing wage compression; the Swedish skill premium fell by more than 30 percent between 1970 and 1990 while the U.S. skill premium, after an initial decline in the 1970s, rose by 8 - 10 percent. Since then both skill premia have increased by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281859
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Is there a Laffer curve between aggregate output and public sector employment?
Koskela, Erkki; Virén, Matti - 2000
This paper develops a model of the relationship between public sector employment, total output and aggregate real demand in market prices, where public employment has a positive productivity effect on private output. Public employment crowds out private employment and output because its increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285036
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Government Banking in Russia: Magnitude and New Features
Vernikov, Andrei - 2011
Russia in the same league with China and India and widening the gap from typical European emerging markets. We show that … China und Indien wieder, während sich die Kluft zu den europäischen emerging markets vergrößerte. Wir zeigen, dass das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286024