. At a time, existence of extend causal relationships between technology diffusion and general economy performance is …

manufacturing jobs. It suggests that technology has reduced the routine task content of manufacturing jobs in India. …Indian manufacturers have invested significantly in technology upgradations since the economy opened up to foreign … trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand …

compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …

trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (external economic) factors (technology shifters). We define … technology index based on the external economic factors which are indicators of ‘technology’. Thus our definition of production … function is amended to accommodate several technology shifters which are not separable from the traditional inputs. That is …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …