Back on the rails
Subtitle: competition and productivity in state-owned industry
By: Sanghamitra Das ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15976; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15976.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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