) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

For the past 60 years, India has promoted small-scale industries (SSI). Industrial promotion took the form of reserving … allows them to follow plants over time, and to examine whether small factories in India exhibit faster employment growth than … than smaller, older factories. They then exploit the fact that India eliminated SSI reservations for more than half of all …

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics … and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines and the left … deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The reallocation of market shares toward a small number of large firms and …

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics … and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource … regressions reveal that the distributional effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The size …