Format:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415531405
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9781134708215
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia Series
Content:
During the last two decades, India has experienced a high growth rate, but the contribution from productivity growth and technological progress has been very low. This has resulted in a poor performance in the employment generation in the formal sector, and this book examines this phenomenon and the Indian growth pattern
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Overview of economic reform in India -- 1.3 Growth and employment in India -- 1.4 Labour legislation and labour market characteristics in India -- 1.5 Productivity growth and employment: conceptual issues -- 1.6 Issues and chapterisation -- 2. Market distortions and productivity growth -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Productivity growth in India: experiences -- 2.3 Theoretical framework -- 2.4 Productivity growth in India -- 2.5 Productivity growth and employment -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- 3. Trade reform and productivity growth -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Trade and productivity growth in India: what we know -- 3.3 Market imperfections, trade and productivity growth in India -- 3.4 Concluding remarks -- 4. Labour market flexibility and productivity growth -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Contractualisation in India -- 4.3 Productivity differential between types of labours -- 4.4 Contractualisation and productivity growth in India -- 4.5 Concluding remarks -- Appendix A4 -- 5. Informal sector, subcontracting and productivity growth -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 R& -- D and productivity -- 5.3 Theoretical framework -- 5.4 Informalisation and productivity growth in the formal sector -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- 6. Foreign competition, bargaining power and cost-price margin -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The model -- 6.3 Trade and labour market adjustments -- 6.4 Concluding remarks -- 7. Financial crisis and labour market adjustment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Effects of financial crisis in the organised sector in India -- 7.3 Change in sectoral composition of workforce -- 7.4 Change in types of employment -- 7.5 Employment in export- and non-export-specific units
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7.6 Effect of the financial crisis on employee cost -- 7.7 Concluding remarks -- 8. Contractualisation and industrialisation -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Profiles of the sample industries -- 8.3 Production processes and integration level -- 8.4 Labour contracts, flexibility and issues of industrialisation -- 8.5 Concluding remarks -- 9. Institutions and issues of industrial growth in India -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Relationship between investment climate and industrial growth -- 9.3 Institutional factors affecting industrialisation -- 9.4 Concluding remarks and policy implications -- 10. Summary and concluding observations -- 10.1 Summary -- 10.2 Concluding observations -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Maiti, Dibyendu Reform and Productivity Growth in India Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415531405
Language:
English
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