IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/12755.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?

Author

Listed:
  • Mukherjee, Dipa
  • Majumder, Rajarshi

Abstract

Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons behind such trends and the likely impact of such movements. It is observed that the employment growth in the tertiary sector had been dynamic and growth-induced during the eighties, but in the recent times has turned distress-driven. Sub-sectors within the tertiary sector are behaving differently indicating the heterogeneity of this sector. Policymakers should note these issues and take appropriate steps not only to boost high-end jobs but also to improve productivity and returns in low-end jobs. Then only tertiary sector revolution in India will be beneficial to the workers en masse and be sustainable.

Suggested Citation

  • Mukherjee, Dipa & Majumder, Rajarshi, 2008. "Tertiarisation of the Indian labour market: a new growth engine or sending distress signals?," MPRA Paper 12755, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:12755
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12755/1/MPRA_paper_12755.pdf
    File Function: original version
    Download Restriction: no

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vélez Tamayo, Julián Mauricio, 2018. "La Ley Petty-Clark en el Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá en Colombia, en el periodo 2000-2016
      [The Petty-Clark law in the Metropolitan Area of The Aburrá Valley in Colombia, in the period 20      ," MPRA Paper 85151, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Vélez Tamayo, Julián Mauricio, 2016. "Sir William Petty y la conformación de la Ley Petty-Clark
      [Sir William Petty and the conformation of the Petty-Clark Law]      ," MPRA Paper 76345, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Pattanaik, Falguni & Nayak, Narayan Chandra, 2013. "Employment Intensity Of Secondary Sector In India: Trends, Patterns And Determinants," Journal of Regional Development and Planning, JRDP, vol. 2(2), pages 157-174.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Tertiary sector; labour; sectoral transformation; inequality; India;

    JEL classification:

    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:12755. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Joachim Winter) or (Rebekah McClure). General contact details of provider: http://edirc.repec.org/data/vfmunde.html .

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service hosted by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis . RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.