The Changing Inter-Industry Wage Structure of the Organised Manufacturing Sector in India, 1973-74 to 2003-04

Monojit Chatterji and Homagni Choudhury

No 244, Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics from Economic Studies, University of Dundee

Abstract: This study examines the inter-industry wage structure of the organised manufacturing sector in India for the period 1973-74 to 2003-04 by estimating the growth of average real wages for production workers by industry. In order to estimate the growth rates, the study adopts a methodological framework that differs from other studies in that the time series properties of the concerned variables are closely considered in order to obtain meaningful estimates of growth that are unbiased and (asymptotically) efficient. Using wage data on 51 manufacturing industries at three digit level of the National Industrial Classification 1998 (India), our estimation procedure obtains estimates of growth of real wages per worker that are deterministic in nature by accounting for any potential structural break(s). Our findings show that the inter-industry wage structure in India has changed a lot in the period 1973-74 to 2003-04 and that it provides some evidence that the inter-industry wage differences have become more pronounced in the post-reforms period. Thus this paper provides new evidence from India on the need to consider the hypothesis that industry affiliation is potentially an important determinant of wages when studying any relationship between reforms and wages.

Keywords: Growth Rate; CAGR; AAGR; Unit Roots; Trend Stationary; Structural Breaks; Real Wages; Inter-industry Wage Structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C18 C22 F16 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2010-10
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