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

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 …

genera tion of employment in particular. The study identifies the bottlenecks in its growth and suggest measures to remove …

employment in this sector is examined. It is found that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector …

several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor … productivity. Second, creating more productive jobs—with jobs defined to include all wage work and self employment— is the most …