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Date01 February 1998
Published date01 February 1998
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0084.00083
OXFORD BULLETIN
of
ECONOMICS and STATISTICS
February 1998Volume 60 No. 1
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 59, 4 (1997)
0305-9049
ABSTRACTS
The Puzzle of Jobless Growth in Indian Manufacturing
Sonia R. Bhalotra
In the 1980’s, India experimented with deregulation in industry and trade.
Manufacturing output accelerated but employment declined, raising
doubts about the desirability of the policy reforms. This paper proposes
an explanation of employment behaviour in terms of increases in total
factor productivity, in actual hours worked, and in the product wage.
Using robust methods, it is shown that neglect of hours worked results in
a substantial upward bias in estimates of the wage elasticity. Growth in
productivity and hours appears to be associated with the reform process,
with the increase in hours worked reflecting recovery of lost time. To the
extent that hours must hit a ceiling, the drop in employment on this count
is expected to be temporary. Other things being equal, employment pros-
pects appear to depend considerably on the course of productivity growth.
Potential Unemployment Benefit Duration and Spell Length: Lessons
from a Quasi-Experiment in Austria
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
The paper studies the effect of potential unemployment benefit duration
on the length of unemployment spells in Austria. It takes advantage of a
quasi-experimental situation, where potential benefit duration was
extended in 1988 for elderly workers living in specific regions of the
country. The empirical analysis shows that men react significantly to
benefit duration whereas women generally do not. The quantitative
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