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Human Capital and the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish - 2010

Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...

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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development a Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish; Asundi, Jai - 2021

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …

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The Skills to Pay the Bills : Returns to On-the-Job Soft Skills Training

Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2018

garment workers in India. The program increased women's extraversion and communication, and spurred technical skill upgrading …

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Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies

Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019

premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …

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A Sorted Tale of Globalization : White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring

Liu, Runjuan - 2013

We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two … for 1996-2007. The cumulative 10-year impact of rising service imports from China and India has been as follows. (1 …

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Different Strokes for Different Folks : Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills

Mohanan, Manoj - 2019

A central issue in designing performance incentive contracts is whether to reward the production of outputs versus use of inputs: the former rewards efficiency and innovation in production, while the latter imposes less risk on agents. Agents with varying levels of skill may perform better under...

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India's Patterns of Development : What Happened, What Follows

Kochhar, Kalpana; Kumar, Utsav; Rajan, Raghuram G.; … - 2022

India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian … economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has … they stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted soon after India's independence. We then look to the future, using the …

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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's it Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley

Arora, Ashish - 2014

This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1980-2002, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent...

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The Globalization of the Software Industry : Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - 2022

The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...

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Patent Commons, Thickets, and Open Source Software Entry by Start-Up Firms

Wen, Wen - 2015

We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the open source software (OSS) community influences new OSS product entry by start-up software firms. In particular, we analyze the impact of The Commons--established by the Open...

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