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We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that offered energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with each unit of energy. Treatment plants, after two years and relative to the control, run longer hours, demand...
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
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We study the effects of the progressive elimination of the system of industrial regulations on entry and production, known as the "license raj," on registered manufacturing output, employment, entry and investment across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are...
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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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Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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using an expansion of the national highway system in India. Using panel data on manufacturing firms, we find that monopsony …
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, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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