This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and … Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Family Health Survey and CMIE Consumer … Pyramid Household Survey to comment on the falling female labour force participation rates in India. It is found that not only …

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. …

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 …

After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in … gains to a great extent. Therefore, unlike other Asian economies, the overall employment gain from trade has been minimal …

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 …