Arbeitspapier
Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor
Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports increases the share of formal manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share increase is both due to the rise in formal-enterprise employment driven by the 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 string costs. Overall, Chinese import competition increased formal sector employment share by 3.7 percentage points, and aggregate labor productivity by 2.87%, between 2000-2001 and 2005-2006.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15760
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor
- Thema
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import competition
formal sector employment
informality
contract workers
Chinese imports
reallocation
misallocation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Chakraborty, Pavel
Singh, Rahul
Soundararajan, Vidhya
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Chakraborty, Pavel
- Singh, Rahul
- Soundararajan, Vidhya
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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