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 …

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 …