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A key prediction of dynamic labor demand models is that firing restrictions attenuate firms' employment responses to … rainfall fluctuations, through their effects on agricultural productivity, generate variation in local demand within districts … over time. Consistent with the theory, we find that industrial employment is more sensitive to shocks where labor …
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Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
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employment creation. Negative employment elasticity in this sub-sector may, however, indicate very low labour productivity … informal employment is on the rise. The study identifies labour productivity, GDP growth, share of services to GDP, investment …, though it has shown relatively stable employment elasticity. The analysis of the nature of employment growth with output …
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the years provided employment to both men and women and presently it is the second largest employer after agriculture in … sector in the labor force particularly for women, it is important to throw some lights on the employment of workers in the … sector of India and examines differences among states with respect to ownership and employment of women and men.The paper …
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The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … employment has not kept pace with the share of the sector in gross domestic product and has not produced the number or quality of …
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Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates …, TFP growth increases substantially in the public corporations. Productivity transition seems to be random across different … (3-digit NIC code) industries. Industries with focus towards services experienced higher productivity growth than others …
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This article tries to look at the responsiveness of employment to the changes in Output during pre and post economic … reform periods by estimating a derived demand function for employment with an interaction variable. The empirical results of … period as the differential output elasticity of employment estimated is significantly positive in private organized sector …
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