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The rising trade in intermediate goods accounts for almost two-thirds of world's trade (MGI, 2019). India's export share for intermediate goods in its total exports has increased from 31.18% in 2011 to 32.52% in 2016. Moreover, India's overall share in world merchandise exports has itself...
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time, some existing jobs may be altered, reduced or eliminated. Therefore, besides assessing the extent of employment … study looks at the trends in domestic and foreign value-added share, and employment and skill-composition of jobs supported …-14. Secondly, export related jobs grew at a much faster rate than overall employment during the period. Thirdly, a chunk of these …
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Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
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We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity …, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …
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linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …
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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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The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary literature. The important ones are absence of world class infrastructure, complex system of internal taxation, an unpredictable taxation environment, and regulations relating to land...
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.4% of gross value added (GVA) between 2000-2001 and 2011-12, while, the share of wages to workers in GVA declined from 26 …
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aggregate productivity growth. We focus our attention on foreign firms and small firms for three reasons. First, industrial …-digit level industries for the 1983-2001 period. We decompose productivity growth into its components (structural change … analysis by firm ownership and size allows us to understand the sources of productivity contributions by foreign firms and …
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