using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation … traditional informal activities is related to increased outsourcing by formal manufacturing enterprises. …

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 …

, factors related to informality-formality trade-off and the question of formalisation as a solution for firms’ growth. Looking …

tax formalization, i.e. a firm’s decision to pay taxes. This positive association only holds for firms that were already …Using a unique panel survey of enterprises, we examine the relationship between four categories of formalization and … doubly robust estimators. The only formalization category that appears to be significantly associated with productivity is …

This paper revisits the effects of a country's institutional framework on individual firms' behavior, in particular … legal rules and employs a rich dataset based on thousands of firms from dozens of countries. We find that most of the … extent the context within which firms operate. …

We characterize increases and decreases in plant-product -level output sales in the Finnish manufacturing sector during …

This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …

and indirect effects of coal-fired power plant commissioning on local incumbent manufacturing firms in Indonesia during a … the effects of coal infrastructure on manufacturing growth in today's industrializing economies. We quantify the direct … coal phase-in period between 1984 and 2015. We analyze spatially and temporally explicit manufacturing and power plant data …