A country's industrial structure plays a pivotal role in determining its competitiveness, growth,
and sustainability. Recently, many Asian countries have experienced significant economic …

Labor regulations in India differ by states and apply differently across types of laborers. The
most restrictive laws make it harder to fire permanent workers for firms. However, these laws …

The world has seen tremendous changes in manufacturing, since its first industrial
revolution to the current era of Industry 4.0. In the past few years, numerous advanced …

ABSTRACT India's Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) of 1947 requires firm with more than 100
workers to pay large costs if they shrink their employment. Since the early 2000s, large …

Structural transformation—the movement of workers from low-productivity to high-
productivity activities—is an essential ingredient of inclusive growth. This paper reviews the …

Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the
organised manufacturing sector has eluded India. Using state-level data from the Annual …

India's post-reform economic development has seen a sustained decline in the labour
intensity of the organised manufacturing sector, including in labour-intensive industries. This …

In the context of EU and OECD countries, formal employment contracts between the
employer and employee for full time work can still be taken to be the norm, despite the …

Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's
organized manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to …

Since the 1980s, industrial labor in India has been increasingly informalized, manifested in a
rising share of unorganized sector employment and the growing use of temporary and …