Industrialization and employment in developing countries : a comparative study

Author(s)

• Gupta, Kanhaya L. (Kanhaya Lal)

Bibliographic Information

Industrialization and employment in developing countries : a comparative study

Kanhaya L. Gupta

Routledge, 1989

Note

Bibliography: p. 197-201

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Collating information from thirteen different countries this book provides a full account of the problematic relationship between industrialisation and labour absorption in developing countries and provides an economic analysis of this situation. This book should be of interest to lecturers and students of economics and development studies.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Statistical Overview 3. Factor Price Behaviour 4. Survey of Studies on Demand for Labour 5. The Models, Estimation Issues and the Data 6. Demand for Production Workers: Time-series Evidence 7. Demand for Production Workers: Pooled Time-series, Cross-section Evidence 8. Interrelated Demand Functions: Pooled Time-series, Cross-section Evidence 9. Cost of Factor Price Distortions 10. Policy Implications 11. Conclusion.

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Details

• NCID: BA0491506X
• ISBN:
  • 0415006228
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 205 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 338.09172/4
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Developing countries. Industrialisation. Effects on employment
  • LCSH : Labor demand -- Developing countries -- Mathematical models
  • LCSH : Manufacturing industries -- Employees -- Supply and demand -- Developing countries -- Mathematical models
  • LCSH : Industrialization -- Developing countries -- Mathematical models
  • FREE : Developing countries