. We use unique data on the search behavior of job seekers sampled from the inflow into employment during the year 1997 in … and job durations for employed and unemployed workers. Our main finding is that the public employment service specializes … in the support of low quality workers. For these workers it is equal in efficiency to the other search channels. …

productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 …This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post … increase is found in the annual rates of technical change, efficiency change, and productivity growth – about 3, 8 and 0 …

The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of â …€˜jobless growth’. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in agriculture sector that … include low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness. Under the typical neoclassical tradition …

about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. It assesses the structural changes in terms of employment of …, returns to scale and productivity. …

social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …

Round Employment-Unemployment Survey covering the period July 1999 thru June 20001 .Being canvassed over a separate set of … households, the results of the Employment-Unemployment Survey are also free of the controversies surrounding the NSS 55th Round … underlying work force participation rates, the industrial distribution of this work force, the changes in labour productivity and …

productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a … sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the obverse side, a slow-down in the rate of growth of labour productivity … other recent analyses. Consistent with the trends in labour productivity and real wages, relative to the 1994-2000 period …