Political reservations and women's entrepreneurship in India

E Ghani, WR Kerr, SD O'Connell - Journal of Development Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political
reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While …

Informality: Causes, consequences and policy responses

R Kanbur - Review of Development Economics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A stylized prediction of the development economics discourse is that informality will
disappear with development, and yet in the last 20 years conventional measures of …

Testing three views about the determinants of informal economy: new evidence at global level and by country groups using the CS-ARDL approach

A Salinas, C Ortiz, J Changoluisa, M Muffatto - Economic Analysis and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the heterogeneous, long, and short-run and causal relationship
between the size of the informal economy and three usual variables related to each of the …

On entrepreneurial resilience among micro‐entrepreneurs in the face of economic disruptions… A little help from friends

D Iyengar, R Nilakantan, S Rao - Journal of Business Logistics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
While much has been written about resilience in the supply chain management (SCM)
literature, most investigations focus on large corporations from the perspective of hel** …

Shedding light on regional growth and convergence in India

A Chanda, S Kabiraj - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
A large body of research on India's rapid economic growth since 1991 also documents
increasing regional disparities. In this paper, we use unsaturated night light data to …

Productivity growth in India since the 1980s: the KLEMS approach

B Goldar, KL Krishna, SC Aggarwal, DK Das… - Indian Economic …, 2017 - Springer
Using the latest (2016) version of the India KLEMS Dataset and following the KLEMS
approach this paper analyzes growth, structural change and productivity advance in the …

Formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment in Indian manufacturing

AI Moreno-Monroy, J Pieters, AA Erumban - IZA Journal of Labor & …, 2014 - Springer
Using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises spanning
the period 1995–2006, we analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and …

Turnaround in India's employment story: silver lining amidst joblessness and informalisation?

S Mehrotra, A Gandhi, P Saha, BK Sahoo - Economic and Political Weekly, 2013 - JSTOR
Creation of decent jobs outside agriculture is one of the biggest challenges that confront
policymakers trying to achieve" faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth". The Indian …

Structure and growth of employment: Evidence from India KLEMS data

SC Aggarwal, B Goldar - Indian Growth and Development Review, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to analyze the structure and trend in employment in the Indian
economy between 1980-8081 and 2015-2016. Design/methodology/approach Use of India …

Informal tradables and the employment growth of Indian manufacturing

SE Ghani, W Kerr, A Segura - World Bank Policy Research …, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a
substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal …