Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey

Jaivir Singh, Deb Kusum Das and Kumar Abhishek ()
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Jaivir Singh: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
Kumar Abhishek: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Working Paper from Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India

Abstract: Using specially commissioned survey to look at issues associated with the employment of contract workers in the Indian manufacturing sector. The worker-oriented study survey used in this paper aimed to ask questions regarding human capital accumulation from workers instead of employers, covering workers from the same set of industry groups covered in the earlier employeroriented survey. The predominant finding of our empirical investigation is that there is a reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of relations between employers and their workers rather than truncating the relationship. In other words, we have reasonably robust support to acknowledge the presence of relationship-specific human capital in the Indian manufacturing sector.

Keywords: specific human capital; skills; wage; icrier; Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 page
Date: 2020-10
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