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The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last … has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level …
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Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to increasing automation and a rise in the capital intensity of production. This has raised much concern about the ability...
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Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment … gaps and revamp the existing employment data systems, the government has put in place a Task Force. However, new employment … data is unlikely to be available until the latter half of next year. Understanding and analyzing employment trends in the …
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employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally … supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to generate the much needed employment opportunities outside the … contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states …
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losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however …
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I find here that the early and mid-aughts (2001 to 2007) witnessed both exploding debt and a consequent 'middle-class squeeze.' Median wealth grew briskly in the late 1990s. It grew even faster in the aughts, while the inequality of net worth was up slightly. Indebtedness, which fell...
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This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend reversed in the 1990s, with newcomers doing as well in...
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The recent shift to remote work raised the amenity value of employment. As compensation adjusts to share the amenity …
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