2009
DOI: 10.1787/eco_studies-v2009-art3-en
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What is holding back productivity growth in India ?

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“…Most authors attribute this in part to stringent labor regulations that impose costs on labor use, driving firms to substitute capital for labor (Hasan and others 2012). Also, this high capital intensity is out of line with India's revealed comparative advantage estimates and relative prices (Dougherty, Herd, and Chalaux 2009).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…Most authors attribute this in part to stringent labor regulations that impose costs on labor use, driving firms to substitute capital for labor (Hasan and others 2012). Also, this high capital intensity is out of line with India's revealed comparative advantage estimates and relative prices (Dougherty, Herd, and Chalaux 2009).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…It contributes to the economy, promotes growth, provides employment to the masses, and established a linkage between the economy and other industries ([2] [3] [4]. The construction sector is the engine of growth for a country and creates a flow of services and goods with other sectors [5]. Improving construction productivity enables to save the cost of per capita and also increase the revenue of the firms.…”
Section: Construction Industrymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The majority of the construction projects are suffering from two main issues those are delay in completion, and cost overrun. According to [1]- [5] poor productivity is one of the primary reasons for it. The productivity of a construction project is affected by a number of attributes either directly or indirectly.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…17 We believe that the use ofα to measure the intrinsic labor intensity in each industry is superior to the use of the share of labor expenditures in total output. The use of the estimated output elasticity with respect to labor overcomes the potential biases that the ratio of labor expenditures to output may have due to the endogeneity of the plant's input choices.…”
Section: Econometric Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They show that a residual measure of TFP that comes from value added is not independent of the use of intermediate inputs and factor input growth when there are increasing or decreasing returns to scale. 17 Again, this specification follows the one of Rs and facilitates the exposition of the results.…”
Section: Econometric Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%