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Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor

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dc.contributor.authorChakraborty, Pavel
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Rahul
dc.contributor.authorSoundararajan, Vidhya
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-01T19:43:23Z
dc.date.available2024-11-01T19:43:23Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-28
dc.description.abstractDoes higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports increase the share of formal manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share increase is due to both the rise in formal-enterprise employment driven by high-productivity firms, and a fall in informal-enterprise employment. The labor reallocation is enabled by the formal firms’ hiring of contract workers, who do not carry stringent firing costs. Overall, Chinese import competition increased formal-sector employment share by 3.7 percentage points, and aggregate labor productivity by 2.87 percent, between the years 2000-2001 and 2005-2006.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099602210292418277/IDU18ae08ec510d3f143b4180f710b3f76c61241
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/42355
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42355
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectFORMAL-SECTOR EMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectINFORMALITY
dc.subjectCONTRACT WORKERS
dc.subjectCHINESE IMPORTS
dc.subjectREALLOCATION
dc.titleImport Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Laboren
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleImport Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
okr.date.disclosure2024-11-01
okr.date.lastmodified2024-10-30T00:00:00Zen
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099602210292418277/IDU18ae08ec510d3f143b4180f710b3f76c61241
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhae007
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/42355
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okr.identifier.report194378
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okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.administrativeEast Asia and Pacific
okr.region.countryChina
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Standards
okr.unitOff of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume38(4)
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