critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages …

the wages of workers employed at heterogeneous firms. The analysis of the data at the firm-level confirms earlier findings … of a differential positive effect of trade liberalization on the average wages at exporting firms relative to non …-exporting firms. However, this analysis of average firm-level wages is incomplete along several dimensions. First, it cannot fully …

Stories on the positive and negative effects of globalization on workers in developing countries abound. But a … deals with the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment, and financial crises on average wages. Second, it … discusses the impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill, and gender. Third, it …

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity …-based determinations of wages. Special emphasis is given to the effects of human capital variables, such as education, experience, and … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

Policy makers in developing countries, including India, are increasingly sensitive to the links between spatial … of granularity. This methodology is applied to India, where individual household survey records are mapped to ?places … spatial productivity patterns across India. The paper shows that there is a gradation of spatial performance across places …

rural India. Conventional welfare analyses that assume fixed wages and focus on households' net sales position lead to …This paper considers the welfare and distributional consequences of higher relative food prices in rural India through … nominal wages for manual labor both within and outside agriculture respond elastically to increases in producer prices; that …

The authors examine technical efficiency variation across four industrial sectors in India, using a stochastic … globalization are likely to bring significant productivity gains even in low-technology industries as managers gear up to meet the …

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of …