This paper analyses the phenomenon of jobless growth in India and the US through the lens of employment elasticity …. Analytical results are derived for decompositions of both the level and change of aggregate employment elasticity in terms of … sectoral elasticities, relative growth and employment shares. Estimates of these decompositions are presented with employment …

Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …

The challenge of employment in the Indian economy, especially after it growth acceleration since the mid-1980s, relates … to its quality rather than its quantity. While employment growth has kept pace with the labour force over the long run …, what has grown is informal employment. The coexistence of rapid capital accumulation, robust output growth and lack of …

This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …