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Meghna Dutta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Outsourcing and Productivity During Economic Crisis: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms
    Social Science Research Network, 2015
    Co-Authors: Meghna Dutta
    Abstract:

    Outsourcing as a form of production reorganization has important implications for factor productivity. Empirical verification of this relationship for India, however, is unavailable in recent times. To fill this gap, we measure the relationship between outsourcing and multifactor productivity for Indian firms between 2009 and 2012. We have used a fixed effects panel data regression analysis and IV approach to confirm that outsourcing raises productivity significantly at the source. The outsourcing-productivity link has important policy implications for developing countries, such as India, where the formal Labor Market still coexists with a considerably large Informal Labor Market.

  • Does Outsourcing Enhance Multifactor Productivity? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Firms
    Social Science Research Network, 2014
    Co-Authors: Meghna Dutta
    Abstract:

    Outsourcing as a form of production reorganization has important implications for factor productivity. Empirical verification of this relationship for India, however, is unavailable in recent times. To fill this gap, we measure the relationship between outsourcing and multifactor productivity for Indian firms between 2009 and 2012. We have used a fixed effects panel data regression analysis and IV approach to confirm that outsourcing raises productivity significantly at the source. The outsourcing-productivity link has important policy implications for developing countries, such as India, where the formal Labor Market still coexists with a considerably large Informal Labor Market.

E. Mine Cinar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Alexandre Kolev - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Labor Supply in the Informal Economy in Russia During Transition
    Social Science Research Network, 1998
    Co-Authors: Alexandre Kolev
    Abstract:

    This paper investigates the Informal Labor Market in Russia in late 1995 and estimates a Labor supply function in the Informal sector using nationally representative micro-data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, Round VI. The findings show that the Informal economy constitutes a considerable source of additional income for many families, though it is associated with a large degree of wage and gender inequality. Informal job holding appears to be a safety valve for several individuals rationed in the regular Labor Market, either unemployed or experiencing compulsory periods of unpaid leave. At the same time, however, the data provides little support for the fact that wage arrears and low earnings from the regular economy increase the probability to join the Informal sector. There are substantial gender differences in how demographic and Market factors influence the attitudes towards Informal activities. For men, the Labor supply curve in the Informal Labor Market is forward sloping, but the Informal wage does not seem particularly significant for women.

Semih Tumen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Immigration and prices: quasi-experimental evidence from Syrian refugees in Turkey
    Journal of Population Economics, 2016
    Co-Authors: Binnur Balkan, Semih Tumen
    Abstract:

    We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a difference-in-differences strategy and a comprehensive data set on the regional prices of CPI items, we find that general level of consumer prices has declined by approximately 2.5 % due to immigration. Prices of goods and services have declined in similar magnitudes. We highlight that the channel through which the price declines take place is the Informal Labor Market. Syrian refugees supply inexpensive Informal Labor and, thus, substitute the Informal native workers especially in Informal-Labor intensive sectors. We document that prices in these sectors have fallen by around 4 %, while the prices in the formal Labor-intensive sectors have almost remained unchanged. Increase in the supply of Informal immigrant workers generates Labor cost advantages and keeps prices lower in the Informal Labor-intensive sectors.

Braga Ruy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Insurrections populaires dans le Sud global : un retour de la lutte des classes sans classes ?
    Brésil(s), 2018
    Co-Authors: Braga Ruy
    Abstract:

    Dans divers contextes nationaux, la crise de la globalisation qui s’est ouverte en 2008 a accentué l’adoption par les gouvernements concernés de politiques néolibérales. Elles ont été caractérisées par de profondes transformations, notamment l’affaiblissement des protections sociales, qui a conduit à une accentuation de la précarisation du travail. La détérioration de la relation salariale fordiste et l’augmentation du chômage ont permis dans des pays très divers, une croissance du travail informel enlevant aux travailleurs leur protection contractuelle, augmentant l’instabilité de l’emploi (accélération des taux de rotation et intermittence). Les négociations collectives sont devenues de plus en plus décentralisées et les contrats de travail plus précaires et individualisés, détruisant la capacité protectrice de « l’économie morale des pauvres » et faisant de l’action directe l’unique alternative possible pour que le « précariat » puisse exprimer ses revendications. Peut-on parler d’un retour à la « lutte des classes sans classes » ? C’est la question à laquelle cet article tente de répondre à partir de la comparaison des expériences de classe des travailleurs pauvres et précaires dans trois pays considérés comme appartenant au Sud global : Portugal, Afrique du Sud et Brésil.Em diferentes contextos nacionais, a atual crise da globalização iniciada em 2008 tem estimulado a adoção de políticas neoliberais pelos governos com marcantes desdobramentos em termos do enfraquecimento do polo protetivo e consequente aprofundamento da precarização do trabalho. Assim, a deterioração da relação salarial fordista e o aumento do desemprego em vários países promovem o crescimento da Informalidade Laboral, que afasta os trabalhadores da proteção trabalhista, além de intensificar a rotatividade e estimular a intermitência do trabalho. As negociações coletivas foram se tornando cada vez mais descentralizadas, e os contratos de trabalho cada vez mais precários e individualizados, minando a capacidade protetiva da « economia moral dos pobres » e transformando a ação direta em, talvez, a única alternativa crível para o « precariado » expressar suas demandas. Um retorno aos tempos da « luta de classes sem classes »? É o que pretendemos avaliar neste artigo a partir da comparação da experiência de classe dos trabalhadores pobres e precários em três países do chamado Sul global: Portugal, África do Sul e Brasil.In different national contexts, the current crisis of globalization that began in 2008 stimulated the adoption of neoliberal policies that notably weakened Labor protections and deepened the precariousness nature of work. Thus, the deterioration of the Fordist model and increased unemployment in several countries promoted the growth of the Informal Labor Market, undermining Labor protections and intensifying intermittent Labor patterns. Collective bargaining became increasingly decentralized, and Labor contracts increasingly fragile and individualized, undermining the protective capacity of the « moral economy of the poor » and turning direct action into perhaps the only credible alternative to express their demands. This article assesses the prospect of a return to the times of « class struggle without classes », comparing the class experience of poor and precarious workers in three countries of the so-called global South: Portugal, South Africa, and Brazil