1. Technology Import and Manufacturing Productivity in India: Firm Level Analysis.
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Rijesh, R.
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MANUFACTURED products ,ELECTRONICS ,TECHNOLOGICAL innovations ,COMPUTER science - Abstract
The paper examines the impact of import of technology on productivity of the organised manufacturing sector of India using firm level panel data for the period of 1995-2010. The estimation of an augmented Cobb-Douglas production function using the Levinsohn and Petrin econometric technique suggests that both embodied as well as disembodied forms of technology import have a positive and significant effect on aggregate manufacturing productivity. However, the sectoral estimation results based on technology intensive classification of firms reveal that the embodied technology purchases have a relatively more significant and positive impact across sectors, whereas the disembodied technology imports have positive effect on the productivity of medium technology intensive sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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