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Productivity : an international comparison

Hyvärinen, Jari - 2011

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

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Wage gains from foreign ownership : evidence from linked employer - employee data

Köllo, János; Boza, István; Balázsi, László - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1/3, pp. 1-21

We compare the wages of skilled workers in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with past, future and no MNE experience, and estimate how the presence of ex-MNE peers affects the wages of domestic firm employees. The analysis relies on...

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Determinants and impact of subcontracting : evidence from India's informal manufacturing sector

Basole, Amit; Basu, Deepankar; Bhattacharya, Rajesh - 2014

There are two divergent perspectives on the impact of subcontracting on firms in the informal sector. According to the benign view, formal sector firms prefer linkages with relatively modern firms in the informal sector, and subcontracting enables capital accumulation and technological...

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Differences in efficiency in the formal-informal dichotomy : a study of Indian firms

Kumari, Ruchi - In: The Indian economic journal 70 (2022) 2, pp. 289-312

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Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing

Moreno, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-17

Using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises spanning the period 1995–2006, we analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this relationship is allowed to differ between modern and...

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Moving out of the bottom of the economy? : constraints to firm transition in the Indian informal manufacturing sector

Raj, Rajesh SN; Sen, Kunal - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-20

The predominant type of firms in developing countries is small family firms and the self-employed in the informal sector. Very few family firms make the transition to larger firms employing non-family labour. In this paper, we examine the reasons for the low presence of firms employing...

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Subcontracting and the Size and Composition of the Informal Sector : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Moreno, Ana - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between formal sector subcontracting and the evolution of the informal sector using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of fast economic growth, subcontracting by formal...

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The costs and benefits of formalization for firms : a mixed-methods study on Mozambique

Berkel, Hanna - 2018

This paper is the first to use a panel dataset from the African continent to investigate the relationship between formalization and firm outcomes. Instead of applying a binary formality indicator, it constructs a conceptual framework that regards informality as a continuum consisting of four...

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Is India’s Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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The Size Distribution of Manufacturing Plants and Development

Kothari, Siddharth - 2015

The typical size distribution of manufacturing plants in developing countries has a thick left tail compared to developed countries. The same holds across Indian states, with richer states having a much smaller share of their manufacturing employment in small plants. In this paper, I explore the...

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