A study undertaken by Ghani and associates (2013) on the organized-unorganized sector breakup of India's manufacturing employment has found persistence of the unorganized sector within manufacturing during 1989-90 to 2005-06. A similar analysis undertaken in the paper for a more recent period,...

Since 2014, several Indian states have taken steps towards easing labour regulations, the prominent one among them being the raising of the threshold of applicability of Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) from 100 to 300 workers, lifting thereby the requirement of government...

In the context of the India KLEMS database, which is consistent with and based on India’s National Accounts Statistics, the paper raises certain issues regarding the measurement of real GVA (gross value added) in (a) the coke and petroleum products industry, (b) the information technology and...

Media articles and scholarly writings in academic journals and books often state that the share of Indian manufacturing in total employment in the economy has been stagnant. This recognized stagnancy in the manufacturing sector’s employment share is interpreted as reflecting a poor performance...

There has been limited research on the impact of labour regulations on the growth in manufacturing employment in India based on econometric analysis techniques. The research in this area has been mainly confined to the organized or formal sector of Indian manufacturing, which accounts for only...

Several earlier studies have observed that the size structure of Indian manufacturing is characterized by the ‘missing middle’ phenomenon – a relatively low appearance/occurrence of middle-size industrial enterprises among industrial enterprises of different size classes. The authors of...

The paper uses plant-level data for 2008-2015 to examine the impact of the adoption of ISO 14000 on the energy intensity of Indian manufacturing plants. The propensity score matching difference-in-difference (PSM-DID) estimator is used for assessing the effect. The results show that the adoption...

The paper attempts to analyze the spillover effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) across Indian manufacturing industries. Foreign presence by way of FDI brings new channels of technology spillover to the domestic industrial firms in the form of enhanced efficiency and diffusion of knowledge...