Moreno, Ana Isabel; Pieters, Janneke; Erumban, Abdul Azeez - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-17
analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this … subcontracting is positively related to employment growth only in the most modern segments of the informal sector. Increased … subcontracting cannot explain the persistently high employment in traditional informal manufacturing activities in India. Instead …