There has been increasing ‘flexibilisation,' in the formal labour markets of both developed and developing countries. Labour institutions and globalisation are often taken to be causally related to this phenomenon, but the evidence remains inconclusive. In India, there has been an increasing...

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...

1. Introduction -- 2. Market distortions and productivity growth -- 3. Trade reform and productivity growth -- 4. Labour market flexibility and productivity growth -- 5. Informal sector, subcontracting and productivity growth -- 6. Foreign competition, bargaining power and cost-price margin --...