Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

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 tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person establishments. This paper...

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Main Authors:	Ghani, Ejaz, Kerr, William R., Segura, Alex
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank Group, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	economic growth employment trade manufacturing trade liberalization global integration trade reforms tradable sectors urbanization microenterprises informal sector female business ownership labor regulations subcontracting productivity growth
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21645

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spelling	okr-10986-216452021-04-23T14:04:03Z Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing Ghani, Ejaz Kerr, William R. Segura, Alex economic growth employment trade manufacturing trade liberalization global integration trade reforms tradable sectors urbanization microenterprises informal sector female business ownership labor regulations subcontracting productivity growth 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 tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person establishments. This paper investigates the causes and determinants of these growth patterns. The rapid urbanization of the informal sector plays the strongest role, while there is some evidence for subcontracting by the formal sector and a "push" entrepreneurship story. The paper also finds modest connections of this growth to rising female labor force participation. The connection between the presence of informal manufacturing and local productivity levels is strong, and varies across urban and rural areas in ways that bolster urbanization and subcontracting hypotheses. 2015-03-30T20:23:21Z 2015-03-30T20:23:21Z 2015-03 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21645 en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7206 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
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description	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 tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person establishments. This paper investigates the causes and determinants of these growth patterns. The rapid urbanization of the informal sector plays the strongest role, while there is some evidence for subcontracting by the formal sector and a "push" entrepreneurship story. The paper also finds modest connections of this growth to rising female labor force participation. The connection between the presence of informal manufacturing and local productivity levels is strong, and varies across urban and rural areas in ways that bolster urbanization and subcontracting hypotheses.
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author	Ghani, Ejaz Kerr, William R. Segura, Alex
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title	Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
title_short	Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
title_full	Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
title_fullStr	Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
title_full_unstemmed	Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing
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Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

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