from 1998 to 2009. Increased import competition from China leads to an improvement in revenue productivity, and a reduction …How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low … Indian manufacturing sector through the lens of theoretical models of multiple-product firms using plant-level ASI panel data …

. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … poised to enter the workforce between 2030 and 2050 - those in their infancy today and the following decades. They should … its roots, inter alia, in the country's grossly inadequate, inefficient and inequitable early health and education systems …

Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and … grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital …

This paper uses a rich panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the effects of domestic and … estimation of production functions together with information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …

This paper uses a rich panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the effects of foreign direct investment … (FDI) on various outcomes of domestic firms. We apply recent methodological advances in the estimation of production … functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups …

profitability of firms in India. We construct a district-level market access index using Indian road network shapefiles, district …

Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing … from acquiring spoken English, an important skill with potentially high returns in the labor market. Using data from a …

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of the Indian manufacturing sector, contributing nearly a … data from a primary survey of MSMEs, this paper examines the current health of these enterprises along various dimension … and surveys expectations of business owners during the crisis. Using data from 361 firms surveyed in May 2020, we find …

. -- Labor Intensity ; Employment Growth ; Labor Productivity ; Capital Productivity ; Organized Manufacturing …This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for …

sectors. -- Indian Organized Manufacturing ; Labor Intensity ; Employment Growth ; Skilled workforce ; Wage structure ; Export … labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across five sectors—apparel, leather, gems and jewellery, sports goods, and … bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms …