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Robot Apocalypse : Does It Matter for India’s Manufacturing Industry?
Mani, Sunil - 2018
of the robot use is confined to the automotive industry and within it, the application area of welding. This task is …
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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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Do labor intensive industries generate employment? : evidence from firm level survey in India
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...
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Labour productivity and export performance : firm-level evidence from Indian manufacturing industries since 1991
Deshmukh, Jayeeta; Pyne, Pradyut Kumar - 2013
This paper examines the productivity of firms and their ability to enter the export market, i.e., the self-selection hypothesis and the determinants of labour productivity at the firm level for India's major exporting manufacturing industries during 1991-2009. The paper also examines whether...
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Automation and future of garment sector jobs : a case study of India
Vashisht, Pankaj; Rani, Nisha - 2019
Robotics has been redefining the production process across manufacturing industries, raising serious concern about the future of jobs and the garment sector is not isolated. The recent innovations such as "Sewbot" along with other Computer Numeric Control machines have increased the risk of...
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Comparisons of real output and productivity of Chinese and Indian manufacturing, 1980 - 2002
Lee, Boon L.; Prasada Rao, D. S.; Shepherd, William F. - In: Journal of development economics 84 (2007) 1, pp. 378-416
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Comparative productivity performance in manufacturing in South and East Asia, 1960 - 1993
Timmer, Marcel; Szirmai, Adam - In: Oxford development studies 27 (1999) 1, pp. 57-79
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The cost of competitiveness of manufacturing in China and India : an industry and regional perspective
Ark, Bart van (contributor) - 2008
manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international … perspective. We find that China has increased its labor productivity to a level above that of India, but due to a somewhat higher … compensation level, China is still somewhat at a disadvantage in terms of unit labor cost in manufacturing relative to India. In …
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Does technological growth-induced migration lead to income convergence? The case of India’s early 2000s telecom boom
Dutta, Arnab; Randolph, Gregory - 2022
This paper demonstrates that India’s early 2000s mobile phone service expansion, or the “telecom boom” led to net rural-urban migration of about 13 million individuals out of which 4 million moved for employment. To estimate the effects, we exploit the heterogeneous expansion of telecom...
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Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'
Majumder, Rajarshi - 2012
Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational structure. However, their contribution to the overall health of the economy are being questioned on grounds of low productivity and economic viability....
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