Tag Search: “manufacturing”
The effect of easing labour restrictions: Evidence on employment in Rajasthan
Stringent labour laws in India can hinder firms’ growth and increase the incidence of informal and contract employment. Looking at evidence from firms in Rajasthan after the amendment of the Industria...
- Sarur Chaudhary Siddharth Sharma
- 26 August, 2022
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Hindu-Muslim integration and firm output in Indian manufacturing: Evidence from a field experiment
Evidence suggests that ethnic diversity can lower firm output due to poor social ties and taste-based discrimination among workers. Based on an experiment in a manufacturing plant in West Bengal, this...
- Arkadev Ghosh
- 23 May, 2022
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Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take a ...
- Dilip Mookherjee Pascual Restrepo
- 04 May, 2022
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Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take a ...
- Dilip Mookherjee Pascual Restrepo
- 04 May, 2022
- Podcasts
Temperature, labour reallocation, and industrial production
While it is well-established that agricultural production is vulnerable to weather shocks, less is known about how those affected respond or the economic consequences of any responses. Analysing data ...
- Jonathan Colmer
- 13 April, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Podcasts
Global supply chain disruptions: Causes and the way ahead
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for the global supply chains, with persistent effects since early 2020, and knock-on effects now gaining intensity. In this post, Sharmila Kanth...
- Sharmila Kantha
- 13 December, 2021
- Perspectives
Intellectual property rights and wage inequality
Technology has become central to most everyday activities. But will incentives for technological change – such as those induced by Covid-19 – cause deeper distortions in the global economy, especially...
- Sourav Bhattacharya Pavel Chakraborty Chirantan Chatterjee
- 25 October, 2021
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Covid-19 and mental health: Fighting the “infodemic”, one phone call at a time
COVID-19 information communication strategies globally have been dominated by SMS and voice recording based campaigns. The most pervasive Indian government campaign was a pre-recorded message that pla...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Varun Chati Sadish D Saswati Mishra Anant Nyshadham Nirupama V
- 22 September, 2021
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Dealing with worker absenteeism in labour-intensive industries
Worker absenteeism in labour-intensive industries causes productivity losses for firms, and reduced potential for productivity-based incentives for workers. Based on a study in Karnataka, this article...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Jean-François Gauthier Shalin Gor Saumya Joshi Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 08 September, 2021
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India’s service-led economic growth
Structural transformation that involves a shift from agriculture straight to services, is a cause of concern to many scholars as an expanding service sector might be a pale substitute to technical pro...
- Tianyu Fan Michael Peters Fabrizio Zilibotti
- 18 June, 2021
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