Tag Search: “firms”
How firms adapt supply chains to climate risk
Amidst growing climate risks, localised weather events such as floods or droughts pose a threat to the links between firms and their suppliers. Using data from India, this article analyses how busines...
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Juanma Castro-Vincenzi
Gaurav Khanna
Nicolas Morales
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar
03 February, 2025
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Policy Roundup: 1.5 degree breach, Trump’s America, ASER 2024
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the widespread negative effects of climate change and what can be done to mitig...
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Nalini Gulati
31 January, 2025
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Technological advancement and employment changes: Recent trends in India
What is the impact of rapid technological advancements on employment in the Indian economy? In this post, Kathuria and Dev analyse ‘Consumer Pyramids Household Survey’ data to explore this question. T...
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Aakash Dev
Rajat Kathuria
24 January, 2025
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Feminisation of India’s industrial workforce
In recent years, the average annual growth rate in manufacturing employment has exceeded that of aggregate employment in India. In this post, Goldar and Aggarwal demonstrate that this trend is accompa...
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Suresh Chand Aggarwal
Bishwanath Goldar
22 January, 2025
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How immigration policy uncertainty affects labour markets
President Trump’s re-election has reignited debate over H-1B visa policies, a temporary high-skill work visa programme wherein 70% of visas are held by Indians. Analysing jobs data from India from the...
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Ritam Chaurey
Kanika Mahajan
Shekhar Tomar
08 January, 2025
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Competitive jobseekers: When sharing less leaves firms at a loss
For efficient matching of jobs and workers in the labour market, it is essential that information on job postings reaches suitable jobseekers. While social networks play a key role in this regard, com...
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Gaurav Chiplunkar
Erin M. Kelley
Gregory Lane
02 December, 2024
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Share of manufacturing in India’s total employment: No mean performance
Available jobs data show only a modest increase in the share of manufacturing in India’s total employment in the last 50 years. In this post, Bishwanath Goldar highlights that the outsourcing of servi...
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Bishwanath Goldar
06 September, 2024
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Patent protection in India: Impact on innovation, pricing and competition
When stronger patent laws were introduced in India, there were fears that it would lead to higher prices without substantial gains in innovation. This article provides evidence that stronger patent pr...
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Apoorva Gupta
Joel Stiebale
12 August, 2024
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How can India become a manufacturing powerhouse?
India’s manufacturing sector has been stagnant over the past 20 years, in terms of contribution to national output as well as employment generation. In this article, Ejaz Ghani locates the explanation...
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Ejaz Ghani
22 July, 2024
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Female leadership in corporate India: Firm performance and culture
Under the Companies Act, 2013, all listed firms in India are required to have at least one woman on their board. This article finds that having at least one woman on board leads to better economic per...
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Ratna Sahay
Navya Srivastava
Mahima Vasishth
11 July, 2024
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Can shared social identity minimise corporate frictions?
A separation between owners and managers of firms gives rise to various problems known as ‘agency conflicts’. This article explores whether having a shared social identity between managers and board m...
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Jitendra Aswani
13 May, 2024
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Creating good jobs for young Indians: Insights from recent research
Young Indians – who are often more educated and have greater aspiration than their previous generations –are seeking ‘good jobs’. Yet, such jobs are not available to the majority. To mark Internationa...
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Nikita Mujumdar
03 May, 2024
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