Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing … production. This has raised much concern about the ability of the manufacturing sector to create jobs for India's rapidly rising …

trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector … manufacturing jobs. It suggests that technology has reduced the routine task content of manufacturing jobs in India. …

through their impact on worker productivity. We utilize a multi-year panel of manufacturing plants in India, as well as daily …

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for …

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to … understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 … bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms …

has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of … output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …

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 …

The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … changes in the conditions of competition in international markets. The regulations in India that impinge on labour flexibility …