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Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry / Sanghamitra Das, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, Rohini Somanathan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Das, Sanghamitra.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15976.
- NBER working paper series no. w15976
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Back on the Rails
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in output with minimal changes in factors of production, but sizable reductions in production delays. We model interruptions to the production process and find that a large part of these reductions are attributable to training. Our results suggest that specific knowledge-enhancing investments can have very high returns, and that the threat of competition provides powerful incentives to undertake such investments.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2010.
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