advantages of cost reduction and flexibility in managing the workforce that industrial firms may get by employing contract …

significant evidence that Indian manufacturing firms responded to globalization by hiring relatively more contract workers a key …A variety of mechanisms linking globalization and margins of adjustments in the labor markets have been empirically … tested in recent years. How globalization could affect the workforce composition of industries and thereby the quality of …

shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using … formal firms across all Indian states, while FDI reform was associated with increased (reduced) formal firm employment in …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an …

Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of … earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills … with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

sample of Indian manufacturing firms. -- globalization ; uncertainty ; training ; labor markets ; India …Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of … earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …

Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of … earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills … with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …

importance of GVCs in India's exports, by devoting an entire chapter, suggesting ways to integrate Indian firms into GVCs. With … time, some existing jobs may be altered, reduced or eliminated. Therefore, besides assessing the extent of employment … study looks at the trends in domestic and foreign value-added share, and employment and skill-composition of jobs supported …