administrative costs of envelope wages in small versus large firms. …

India’s unorganized or informal manufacturing fell by 2.5 to 7.5 per cent in 2020-21, reflecting the impact of COVID-19. In … the previous eight years, the average rate of fall in employment in informal manufacturing was about 0.5 per cent per year …. Using PLFS data on employment and earnings, we estimate that nominal GVA in India’s unorganized manufacturing fell by 14 …

This paper explores the effects of tropical cyclones on the economic activity of establishments in the manufacturing … that, after a tropical cyclone, the average manufacturing establishment experiences a short-term and small negative effect … analysis of the heterogeneity of the effects between manufacturing and services sectors. …

by trade opening) on informality, while relevant empirical literature has been not well developed. The paper aims to fill … this knowledge gap by shedding further light on the linkages running from globalisation to informality in developing … of indicators most likely to influence the size of informality. Our finding reveals that the indicators with consistently …

system on local informality rates for the SPMR between 2000 and 2010. We compare the average changes in informality in areas … informality decreased on average 15 percent faster in areas receiving new public transport infrastructure compared to areas that …

China’s. This decrease boosted Mexico’s trade competitiveness, particularly in the manufacturing sector. However, Mexico …. The aim of this paper is two-fold: first, we examine the evolution of total factor productivity in Mexico’s manufacturing … sluggish productivity improvements, particularly to determine how labour informality may have contributed. The study takes …