Employment Growth in West Bengal: An Assessment

Subhanil Chowdhury () and Soumyajit Chakraborty ()

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Abstract: West Bengal witnessed the highest growth in non-agricultural employment between 2004-05 and 2009-10 amongst all the states in India. The state also witnessed the highest growth in manufacturing employment between 2004-05 and 2011-12. The paper analyses this increase in employment in the manufacturing sector in particular. [Occasional Paper No. 52].

Keywords: employment; India; West Bengal; growth; manufacturing; sector; states; non-agricultural; industrially advanced; jobs; industrialized; backward states; agriculture; slowdown; growth; industrial output; GSDP; NSDP; state domestic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06
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