Productivity growth is essential for economic enhancement of any country. However it is empirically quite perplexing to estimate it. The standard practice is to estimate productivity changes by incorporating a time trend within the production function (Baltagi and Griffin 1988; Kumbhakar and Hesmati...

A number of studies, covering agricultural and industrial sector in India, reveal that female workers are usually ill paid compared to their male counterparts. In this study, we focus on wage-productivity differential between males and females in the unorganised service sector. It is found that...