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supported both foreign and domestic investment for technological catch-up. It is the only country where FDI favoured the … manufacturing sector and manufactured exports, and where domestic investment started becoming increasingly important compared to FDI …
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Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Indian firms has increased significantly in recent years. Such investments by Indian firms have gone to more than 100 host countries. However, little is known about the effects of such OFDI on domestic activity of Indian multinational enterprises...
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economic cooperation. This paper studies the direct and indirect impact of US FDI inflows in India and identifies the … of the secondary data helped in identifying sectors where the overall impact of US FDI was high. A primary survey was … stakeholders. The main contribution of this paper is to our understanding of the impact of FDI through these surveys. The largest …
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, employment growth. For a dataset covering four diverse emerging economies, we find that wholly-owned FDI operations have higher …
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This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...
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investment (FDI) on plant-level employment and the wages of skilled and unskilled workers in India's manufacturing sector. On … average, there are strong positive differential effects of increased inward-level FDI for large plants relative to small and … experience negative effects from inward FDI, which can be explained by intra-industry reallocation of output from smaller to …
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This paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host … countries. Labour market literature has focused on the demand side of FDI; that is, increasing wage inequality by demanding more … skilled workers or just increasing the overall average wages. On the supply side, FDI can enrich the skilled labour force of …
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firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of …
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The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority...
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We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage...
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