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Title: DO WORKERS GAIN FROM PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE? SOME EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN ORGANISED MANUFACTURING SECTOR, 2000-01 TO 2014-15
Authors: Chandan Kumar Sharma
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Chandan Kumar Sharma PhD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
MLA 8 Sharma, Chandan Kumar. "DO WORKERS GAIN FROM PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE? SOME EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN ORGANISED MANUFACTURING SECTOR, 2000-01 TO 2014-15." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 5, no. 11, Nov. 2020, pp. 3649-3659, doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i11.022. Accessed Nov. 2020. APA 6 Sharma, C. (2020, November). DO WORKERS GAIN FROM PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE? SOME EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN ORGANISED MANUFACTURING SECTOR, 2000-01 TO 2014-15. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 5(11), 3649-3659. doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i11.022 Chicago Sharma, Chandan Kumar. "DO WORKERS GAIN FROM PRODUCTIVITY INCREASE? SOME EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN ORGANISED MANUFACTURING SECTOR, 2000-01 TO 2014-15." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 5, no. 11 (November 2020), 3649-3659. Accessed November, 2020. doi:10.46609/IJSSER.2020.v05i11.022.
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Abstract: This paper analyses the trends in segment-wise employment and their wage rates in the organised manufacturing sector over the last one and half decades; 2000-01 to 2014-15. Its primary focus is on analysing the trends in labour productivity and the gap between labour productivity and real earnings of different segments of employees in the sector. The analysis shows that the employment stagnation of the 1980s and 1990s continued until 2003-04, and after that, there has been a significant, but an almost equal, growth across the employment categories. However, incomes have grown disproportionately across the employment categories. Labour productivity has increased tremendously, but it has primarily benefited the supervisory and managerial staffs in the sector; a 100 percent rise in labour productivity has brought 88 percent rise in supervisors and managerial staffs’ real income while workers’ real income has increased just by 9.5 percent over the fifteen years period. So, the gap between the labour productivity and workers’ real wage has increased further, and thus, they have gained the least from the significant rise in the labour productivity in the last one and half decades.

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