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Sourav Bhattacharya
Sourav Bhattacharya is a Professor in the Economics Group at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He has wide ranging interests spanning the economics of organisations, political economy, and development. Prior to joining IIM Calcutta, he worked at the University of Pittsburgh and Royal Holloway University of London.
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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 through wage inequality? To examine this issue, this article analyses data on Indian manufacturing firms during 1990-2006, and shows that stronger incentives for innovation through intellectual property resulted in inequality across virtually the entire economy.
