Insights into Inclusive Growth, Employment and Wellbeing in India

by Arup Mitra

Arup Mitra is a professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His research interest include issues in the area of urban development, labour and welfare, industrial growth and productivity and gender inequality. He has published in a number of international and national journals. He worked as a senior researcher at ILO (Geneva), was offered visiting fellowship at Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo) and held the Indian Economy Chair at Sciences Po. (Paris). The Indian Econometric Society offered him the Mahalanobis Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of quantitative economics. His work has been cited in the Hand Book of Regional and Urban Economics and he has also contributed in the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) and Mathematical Models in Economics (Ed. Zhang, W.), developed under the auspices of the UNESCO

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Mitra, Arup
Publisher:	India : Springer
Subject:	Endogenes Wachstumsmodell \| Endogenous growth model \| Urbanisierung \| Urbanization \| Arbeitsmarkt \| Labour market \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change \| Lebensqualität \| Quality of life \| Indien \| India \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Verstädterung
Description of contents:	Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (XII, 352 p. 13 illus, digital)
Series:	SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Insights into Inclusive Growth, Employment and Wellbeing in India; Preface; About the Author; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Services-Led Growth: Inter-sectoral Relationship and Impact on Poverty; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Structural Shifts and Excess Growth of the Tertiary Sector Across Countries; 2.2.1 Per Capita Income and Structural Change; 2.2.2 Composition of the Tertiary Sector; 2.3 Structural Transformation in India; 2.3.1 Data Problems; 2.3.2 Services Sector Growth; 2.3.3 Services Sector: Growth, Composition and Performance 2.3.4 Role of the Tertiary Sector in Enhancing the Aggregate Growth2.3.5 Effect of Tertiary on Industry; 2.3.6 Tertiary Sector and Poverty; 2.4 Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter 3: Rural-Urban Distribution of Growth; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Domestic Product Originating from Urban Areas; 3.3 Data Sources and Limitations; 3.4 Empirical Results; 3.4.1 City-Wise Results; 3.4.1.1 Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission Cities; 3.5 Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter 4: Industry as the Engine of Growth; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Performance of Organised Manufacturing Judged from Growth Rates 4.2.1 Employment Elasticity and Wage-Productivity Relationship4.2.2 Role of Industry in Reducing Poverty: Evidence from Indian States; 4.3 Labour Market Reforms and Employment: International Evidence; 4.3.1 Wage Elasticity of Employment and Wage-Productivity Relationship; 4.4 Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter 5: Technology Import and Industrial Employment: India and Other Developing Countries; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Growth, Employment and Productivity: Cross-Country Results; 5.1.2 Import of Technology and Employment; 5.1.3 Performance (Technical Efficiency) and Import of Technology 5.2 Imported Capital and Employment: Evidence for India5.2.1 Descriptive Statistics; 5.2.2 Estimation Results; 5.3 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Employment Implications of Trade-In Services; 6.1 Perspective; 6.2 Effect of International Trade on Services Sector Employment; 6.2.1 Methodological Framework; 6.2.2 Broad Patterns; 6.2.3 Econometric Analysis; 6.3 Analysis Based on Company-Level Data; 6.4 Summing-Up; Chapter 7: Labour Market Outcomes; 7.1 Indian Labour Market: An Overview; 7.2 Various Indicators of Labour Market Performance; 7.2.1 Sectoral Perspective; 7.2.2 Nature of Employment 7.2.3 Unemployment Trends in India7.2.4 Labour Productivity; 7.2.5 Wage Growth; 7.3 Conclusion and Policy Issues; Chapter 8: Gender Inequality in the Labour Market; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Literature Review; 8.2.1 Views on Labour and Work Force Participation Rate of Women; 8.3 Empirical Analysis; 8.3.1 Labour Force and Work Force Participation Rates; 8.3.2 Employment Elasticity; 8.3.3 1993-1997; 8.3.4 1997-2001; 8.3.5 2001-2005; 8.3.6 Unemployment Rate; 8.3.7 Employment Structure and Employment Status; 8.3.8 Wages; 8.3.9 Informal Sector 8.4 Association Between Labour Market Inequality and Inequality in Other Areas
ISBN:	978-81-322-0656-9 ; 1-283-63304-3 ; 978-1-283-63304-8 ; 978-81-3220656-9 ; 978-81-322-0655-2
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-81-322-0656-9 [DOI]
Classification:	Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Wirtschaftsstruktur: Sonstiges
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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