The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last … has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level … data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we find that in addition to labour market rigidities and the existence of a wage …

, employment, and productivity, many direct and indirect effects are at play. To ensure a transparent and systematic flow of the …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … past. Another is lower trade union membership. Alternatively, it might be driven by a fall in productivity as a result of a …

skills, employment growth has generally been quite stagnant in all regions. Labor skills, for which we use the wage premium …. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …