) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

For the past 60 years, India has promoted small-scale industries (SSI). Industrial promotion took the form of reserving … allows them to follow plants over time, and to examine whether small factories in India exhibit faster employment growth than … than smaller, older factories. They then exploit the fact that India eliminated SSI reservations for more than half of all …