The transformation of an Indian labor market : the case of Pune / by Richard D. Lambert, Ralph B. Ginsberg, Sarah J. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Richard D.

Contributor:

Ginsberg, Ralph B.

Moore, Sarah J.

Series:

University of Pennsylvania studies on South Asia ; v. 3.

University of Pennsylvania studies on South Asia, 0169-0361 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--India--Pune.

Labor supply.

Labor market--India--Pune.

Labor market.

Quality of work life--India--Pune.

Quality of work life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the results of a series of studies of the labor markets in Pune, a medium-sized city in India. In the seven-year period over which these studies were carried out, Pune was transformed from a quiet administrative and educational center with a few isolated, relatively low technology factories, employing mostly unskilled and semi-skilled laborers, into a major manufacturing city with a substantial number of large-scale factories producing a diverse set of products, requiring high technology and a skilled work force. At the same time there was what is referred to as the Pune urb

Contents:

THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDIAN LABOR MARKET THE CASE OF PUNE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter I. The Problem and the Data; Data Sources; Chapter II. Leaving a Job in the Old Labor Market; Who Left and Why; Separations Predicted by One Variable at a Time; Voluntary Versus Involuntary Departure; Chapter III. Getting Another Job in the Old Market; Leaving the Factory; The Unemployed; Time Until Next Job; Looking for a Job; Who Was Hired First; Residence and Job Changes; The Old Job and the New Job; Leaving the Factory Sector; Non-Factory Jobs

Factory JobsSkill Transfer; Wages and Job Change; Interrelation of Job Change Features; Subjective Job Comparisons; Summary of Old Labor Market; Chapter IV. Applicants and Hired in the New Labor Market; Aggregate Supply and Demand; Occupation-Specific Supply and Demand; The Geographic Domain of the Market; The Growth of an Educated Manpower Supply; Applicants Without Job Experience; Experienced Applicants; Occupational Inheritance; Current Generation Occupational Specificity; Market Stratification by Jobs Applied for; Who Was Hired?; The Job Search Among Those Hired

Skill Transfer by Those HiredWage Gains; Summary; Chapter V. Job Changing in the New Market; The Volume of Turnover; Why Workers Changed Jobs; Discharged Workers Versus Quits; Who the Leavers Were; Predictors of Unemployment; Time Between Jobs; Localization of the Market; Factory-to-Factory Re-employment; Who Remained in the Factory Sector?; Comparing Jobs; Skill Transfer; Wage Changes; Comparative Job Satisfaction; Interrelationships Among Job Exchange Features; Summary; Chapter VI. Summary and Conclusions; The Old and the New Market Compared; Selectivity; Education; Migration History; Sex

Family CharacteristicsAttitudes; Last Job; Job Search Strategies; Chapter VII. An Agenda for Future Research; Appendix A. A Note on Methods of Data Analysis; Logit Regression, Ordinary Least Squares, and Discriminant Analysis; Other Methods: Structures We Failed to Find; Appendix B. Surveyof Factory Labor in Pune, 1963-1964Richard D. LambertQuestionnaire; Appendix C. Applicant Questionnaire; Indices

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-42463-0

9786613424631

90-272-7914-4

OCLC:

769344145