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Gupta, Bishnupriya (2006) Unions, wages and labour productivity: evidence from Indian cotton mills. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.753).
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Abstract
This paper uses firm level data from all the textile producing regions in India to examine the relation between wages, unionization and labour productivity. We find that fewer workers were employed per machine in the unionized mills in Bombay and Ahmedabad, as compared to non-unionized regions implying that low labour productivity was not due to union resistance to increased work intensity. Our findings suggest that while low wages in India encouraged overmanning, higher wages, prompted by unionization, had productivity enhancing effects. We explore alternative explanations for low labour productivity, arising from the managerial and institutional structure of Indian cotton mills.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cotton manufacture -- India, Textile workers -- India, Wages -- Textile workers -- India, Labor productivity -- India, Textile workers -- Labor unions -- India | ||||
Series Name: | Warwick economic research papers | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Economics | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | July 2006 | ||||
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Number: | No.753 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 37 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
Grant number: | R.ECAA 0039 (ESRC) | ||||
Realised As: | Gupta, B. (2011). Wages, unions, and labour productivity : evidence from Indian cotton mills. Economic History Review, 64(S1), pp. 76-98. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/41619 | ||||
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