Are Labor Regulations Driving Computer Usage in India's Retail Stores?
A recent survey of 1,948 retail stores in India conducted by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 19 percent of the stores use computers for their business. In some states like Kerala, computer use is as high as 40 percent. Using thi...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/07/7848011/labor-regulations-driving-computer-usage-indias-retail-stores http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7458 |
| Summary: | A recent survey of 1,948 retail stores
in India conducted by the World Bank's Enterprise
Surveys shows that 19 percent of the stores use computers
for their business. In some states like Kerala, computer use
is as high as 40 percent. Using this data the author finds
labor regulation as an important determinant of computer
use. His estimates suggest that when faced with burdensome
labor regulations, the probability of using a computer rises
by over 36 percentage points for an average store. These
findings formally confirm a commonly held but untested view
that labor regulation may be responsible for the spread of
labor saving modern technology. |
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