Reform and productivity growth in India : issues and trends in the labour markets
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Reform and productivity growth in India : issues and trends in the labour markets
(Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia, 120)
Routledge, 2014
- : hbk
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
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  Switzerland
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-216) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Using primary and secondary data, the book looks at the impact of economic reform on technological change and total productivity growth, and in turn its impact on the labour market. It examines the effect of trade reform on the form and functioning of labour markets, and goes on to look at the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian labour market.
Offering interesting modelling exercises and empirical verifications that bring fresh ideas and new content, this book is of interest to academics in the fields of development economics, international economics and South Asian studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Market Distortions and Productivity Growth 3. Trade Reform and Productivity Growth 4. Labour Market Flexibility and Productivity Growth 5. Informal Sector, Subcontracting and Productivity Growth 6. Foreign Competition, Bargaining Power and Cost-Price Margin 7. Financial Crisis and Labour Market Adjustment 8. Contractualisation and Industrialization 9. Institutions and Issues of Industrial Growth in India 10. Summary and Concluding Observations
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