We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian …

How important is the exercise of classical monopsony power against labor for the level of wages and labor's share? We … novel screen to quantify how wages are affected by market power exerted in labor markets, either by a single firm or a group … of cooperating firms. The theory guides the measurement of labor “markdowns”, i.e., the gap between wage and the value of …

and relative to the control, run longer hours, demand more skilled labor and use 9.5 percent more electricity (standard …

The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing growth has been widely studied in the literature. What has gone …

ownership among incumbent businesses within a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be … female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs … district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for …

emphasized skill-intensive rather than labor-intensive manufacturing, and industries with typically higher average scale. We show …