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Lifting the veil : the face of TFP in an Indian rail mill
Das, Sanghamitra; Krishna, Kala; Lychagin, Sergey; … - 2011
-enhancing investments in emerging economies. -- Total Factor Productivity (TFP) ; plant level data ; competitiveness and trade …
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Lifting the Veil : The Face of TFP in an Indian Rail Mill
Das, Sanghamitra - 2011
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to understand how output rose sharply in response to competitive pressures. Output increases came predominantly from reductions in production delays of various kinds. We model...
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Productive Employment and Empowering Education : An Agenda for India's Youth
Jha, Raghbendra - 2014
Until very recently and despite human capital's pre-eminent and empirically established contribution to economic growth, Indian policymakers planning for economic development concentrated largely on issues of capital, labour and, to a lesser extent, technology. This paper argues that India's...
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The ties that bind us: social networks and productivity in the factory
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Sharma, Swati - 2020
We use high frequency worker level productivity data from garment manufacturing units in India to study the effects of … caste-based social networks on individual and group productivity when workers are complements in the production function but … productivity by about 10 percentage points. The lowest performing worker increases her effort by more than 15 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293587
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Enhancing Productivity, Efficiency and International Competitiveness of Indian Economy
Rena, Ravinder - 2015
-sector structural reforms aimed at enhancing productivity, efficiency and international competitiveness of the economy. The reforms have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213073
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Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'
Majumder, Rajarshi - 2012
grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049681
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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration
Lowe, Matt - 2020
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841733
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Types of contact : a field experiment on collaborative and adversarial caste integration
Lowe, Matt - 2020
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162642
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A breath of fresh air: raising awareness for clean fuel adoption
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, E. - 2020
Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public health workers to either raise awareness about the adverse...
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Harvesting the Low-Hanging Fruit : A Behavioural Study of Energy-Efficient Household Appliance Purchases in India
Fuerst, Franz - 2016
This paper investigates household decision-making behaviour in the market for energy-efficient lighting and household appliances in Delhi, India to study the energy efficiency gap in a behavioural economics framework. In particular, a unique primary dataset of survey responses and incentivised...
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