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

through their impact on worker productivity. We utilize a multi-year panel of manufacturing plants in India, as well as daily … worker productivity measures from selected case-study units to show that (i) manufacturing output decreases at high … temperatures by 1-3 percent per degree celsius; (ii) this reduction appears to be driven by declining worker productivity. Our …

Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two … reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should reflect the productivity of the lower levels, which comprise the aggregate …