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 ...
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Dilip Mookherjee
Pascual Restrepo
04 May, 2022
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Inequality, labour market trends, and the welfare State
All around the world, rising levels of inequality – particularly in the last 3-4 decades – have been recognised as a major issue. In this context, David Green (University of British Columbia) and ...
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Parikshit Ghosh
David Green
14 October, 2021
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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 ...
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Jonathan Colmer
13 April, 2022
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Leveraging digital labour markets to increase employment opportunities
India’s relatively young population, the pace of adoption of smartphones and digital technology, and rapid urbanisation has contributed to the growth of digital labour markets. In recent years, we h...
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Farzana Afridi
Sakshi Khurana
K. Rajeswara Rao
28 June, 2022
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Leveraging digital labour markets to increase employment opportunities
India’s relatively young population, the pace of adoption of smartphones and digital technology, and rapid urbanisation has contributed to the growth of digital labour markets. In recent years, we h...
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Farzana Afridi
Sakshi Khurana
K. Rajeswara Rao
28 June, 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...
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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 ...
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Dilip Mookherjee
Pascual Restrepo
04 May, 2022
- Videos
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 ...
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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 ...
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Jonathan Colmer
13 April, 2022
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Trade, internal migration, and human capital: Who gained from India’s IT boom?
The Indian economy experienced trade expansion and an IT boom during 1993-2004. How did the spectacular growth in a high skill-intensive sector – concentrated in a few big cities – affect inequali...
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Devaki Ghose
14 March, 2022
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Debt contract enforcement and product innovation
Weak enforcement of debt contracts can have undesirable consequences for financial development, as difficulty in recovering claims from distressed firms causes banks to reduce lending. Leveraging the ...
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Tanya Jain
Rahul Singh
Chetan Subramanian
28 February, 2022
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Contract labour and firm growth in India
There is considerable evidence indicating that the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA), 1947 – which made it illegal for large companies to downsize – had a powerful disincentive effect for entrepreneur...
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Marianne Bertrand
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Nick Tsivanidis
02 December, 2021
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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, especi...
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Sourav Bhattacharya
Pavel Chakraborty
Chirantan Chatterjee
25 October, 2021
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Inequality, labour market trends, and the welfare State
All around the world, rising levels of inequality – particularly in the last 3-4 decades – have been recognised as a major issue. In this context, David Green (University of British Columbia) and ...
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Parikshit Ghosh
David Green
14 October, 2021
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Alleviating financial concerns to enhance worker productivity
Financial constraints can have psychological consequences and affect productivity by making workers more distracted during work. Based on an experiment among small-scale manufacturing workers in Odish...
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Supreet Kaur
Sendhil Mullainathan
Suanna Oh
Frank Schilbach
29 September, 2021
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
Robots have long existed in human imagination and only recently in the real world. The baggage of past imagination often intrudes into our understanding of how real robots will affect our economic liv...
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About a third of the total area of Tripura is covered by bamboo, and bamboo has emerged as a key thrust area for the state’s industrial development. Based on a field visit that was undertaken to stu...
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