Friday, May 28, 2010
[IWS] BLS: LABOR COSTS in INDIA'S ORGANIZED MANUFACTURING SECTOR [28 May 2010]
IWS Documented News Service
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 Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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Monthly Labor Review Online
May 2010, Vol. 133, No. 5
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/05/home.htm
or
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/05/mlr201005.pdf
[full-text, 126 pages]
Labor costs in India’s organized manufacturing sector
Jessica R. Sincavage, Carl Haub, and O.P. Sharma
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/05/art1full.pdf
[full-text, 20 pages]
Abstract:
 Compensation costs in India’s organized manufacturing sector 
were 91 cents per hour for all employees in 2005; this amounted to 
about 3 percent of hourly labor costs in the U.S. manufacturing sector, 
but was above BLS estimates of labor costs in China
 
 
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