This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. Although the secular trend for India's manufacturing … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure has not. The results suggest that districts …

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts …

services as a driver of urbanization and structural transformation is still not well understood. Using establishment level data … from India, this paper helps narrow this gap by comparing and contrasting the spatial development of services with that in …