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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967748003321

Autore

Lambert Richard D

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-42463-0

9786613424631

90-272-7914-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

GinsbergRalph B

MooreSarah J

Disciplina

331.11/0954/792

Soggetti

Labor supply - India - Pune

Labor market - India - Pune

Quality of work life - India - Pune

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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