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1 online resource (422 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
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Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Overview of economic reform in India; 1.3 Growth and employment in India; 1.4 Labour legislation and labour market characteristics in India; 1.5 Productivity growth and employment: conceptual issues; 1.6 Issues and chapterisation; 2. Market distortions and productivity growth; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Productivity growth in India: experiences; 2.3 Theoretical framework; 2.4 Productivity growth in India; 2.5 Productivity growth and employment. |
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2.6 Concluding remarks3. Trade reform and productivity growth; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Trade and productivity growth in India: what we know; 3.3 Market imperfections, trade and productivity growth in India; 3.4 Concluding remarks; 4. Labour market flexibility and productivity growth; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Contractualisation in India; 4.3 Productivity differential between types of labours; 4.4 Contractualisation and productivity growth in India; 4.5 Concluding remarks; Appendix A4; 5. Informal sector, subcontracting and productivity growth; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 R & D and productivity. |
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5.3 Theoretical framework5.4 Informalisation and productivity growth in the formal sector; 5.5 Concluding remarks; 6. Foreign competition, bargaining power and cost-price margin; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The model; 6.3 Trade and labour market adjustments; 6.4 Concluding remarks; 7. Financial crisis and labour market adjust; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Effects of financial crisis in the organised sector in India; 7.3 Change in sectoral composition of workforce; 7.4 Change in types of employment; 7.5 Employment in export- and non-export-specific units; 7.6 Effect of the financial crisis on employee cost. |
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7.7 Concluding remarks8. Contractualisation and industrialisation; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Profiles of the sample industries; 8.3 Production processes and integration level; 8.4 Labour contracts, flexibility and issues of industrialisation; 8.5 Concluding remarks; 9. Institutions and issues of industrial growth in India; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Relationship between investment climate and industrial growth; 9.3 Institutional factors affecting industrialisation; 9.4 Concluding remarks and policy implications; 10. Summary and concluding observations; 10.1 Summary; 10.2 Concluding observations. |
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BibliographyIndex. |
| Summary |
During the last two decades, India has experienced a high growth rate, but the contribution from productivity growth and technological progress has been very low. This has resulted in a poor performance in the employment generation in the formal sector, and this book examines this phenomenon and the Indian growth pattern. Using primary and secondary data, the book looks at the impact of economic reform on technological change and total productivity growth, and in turn its impact on the labour market. It examines the effect of trade reform on the form and functioning of labour m. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Labor market -- India.
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Labor market. |
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India. |
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Economic development -- India.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. |
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Economic development. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. |
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Print version: Maiti, Dibyendu. Reform and Productivity Growth in India : Issues and Trends in the Labour Markets. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780415531405 |
| ISBN |
9781134708284 (electronic book) |
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1134708289 (electronic book) |
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9781134708215 |
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1134708211 |
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