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Rain, Rain, Go Away? The Investment Climate, State Business Relations and Firm Performance in India
Vinish, Kathuria; Natarajan, Seethamma; Raj, Rajesh; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
factor productivity (TFP) for formal sector firms in India for the years 2000-01 and 2004-05 and find support for this …
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Private saving in India and Malaysia compared: the roles of financial liberalization and expected pension benefits
Ang, James; Sen, Kunal - In: Empirical Economics 41 (2011) 2, pp. 247-267
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Rain, rain, go away? The investment climate, state–business relations and firm performance in India
Kathuria, Vinish; Raj, S.N. Rajesh; Sen, Kunal - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 4 (2011) 2, pp. 172-186
Productivity (TFP) for formal sector firms in India for the years 2000–2001 and 2004–2005 and find support for this hypothesis. …
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Trade openness, labour institutions and flexibilisation: Theory and evidence from India
Saha, Bibhas; Sen, Kunal; Maiti, Dibyendu - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 180-195
the evidence remains inconclusive. In India, there has been an increasing use by firms in the formal manufacturing sector …
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Institution of State–Business Relation and Its Impact on Manufacturing Productivity Growth in India: A Post-reform Analysis
Kathuria, Vinish; Rajesh Raj S.N.; Sen, Kunal - In: South Asia Economic Journal 14 (2013) 1, pp. 83-108
Empirical studies on total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in developing countries highlight trade openness, research and development and market structure as being the most important determinants of TFPG. The role of institutions remains overlooked in the literature on the determinants of...
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646335
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Is Caste Destiny? Occupational Diversification among Dalits in Rural India
Gang, Ira; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2011
The caste system – a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy – distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618058
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Monitoring Costs, Credit Constraints and Entrepreneurship
Banerji, Sanjay; Raj, Rajesh S.N.; Sen, Kunal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The vast majority of firms in developing economies are micro and small enterprises owned by families whose members also provide the labour to the units. Often, they fail to grow in size even with the relaxation of credit constraints. In this paper, we show that frictions in the labour market...
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The Puzzling Decline in Rural Women’s Labor Force Participation in India: A Reexamination
Neff, Daniel; Sen, Kunal; Kling, Veronika - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012
Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575745
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Does the institution of State Business Relations matter for Firm Performance? – A study of Indian Manufacturing
Kathuria, Vinish; Natarajan, Rajesh Raj; Sen, Kunal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the role of the external institutional environment captured by effective state-business relations on firm performance. By effective state-business relations, we mean a set of highly institutionalized, responsive and public interactions between the state and the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587856