The impact of trade liberalization on productivity: Evidence from India's formal and informal manufacturing sectors

By Shanthi Nataraj. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India (2013, unknown): “…in fiscal years 1994, 2000, and 2005.7 This section describes some key features of these data for our study, and we refer readers to Ghani et al. (2013b, forthcoming), Nataraj (2011) and Kathuria et al. (2010) for greater details and general descriptive statistics on these manufacturing surveys.”
• Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country (2018, unknown): “The lack of data on household business employment would, for example, miss 66 to 80 percent of employment in manufacturing in countries such as Vietnam and India.”
• In with the Big, Out with the Small (2014, unknown): “Nataraj ( 2011 ) shows that tariffs were largely harmonized across industries by the late 1990s, so even though there were some reductions during the 2000s the variation in tariff rates across product types had fallen dramatically by the start of the sample period.”
• The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developing Countries (2017, unknown): “manufacturing workers in India (Nataraj 2011), 42 percent in Vietnam (McCaig and Pavcnik 2015), and 70 percent of workers in Brazil (Dix-Carneiro and Kovak 2017).”
• The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Productivity and Innovation (2018, unknown): “An exception is Nataraj (2011), who shows that import competition caused the av‑ erage productivity of informal firms in India (which accounts for 80% of employment) to increase, but due to a lack of panel data is not able to attribute this fully to within‑ firm productivity changes.”