The impact of trade with ASEAN on India’s employment in industrial sector

IF 1.4 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI:10.1080/13547860.2021.1976000

Devasmita Jena, Swati Saini

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Abstract

Abstract This paper examines the impact of trade with ASEAN on industry-level employment in India during the period of 1996–1997 to 2016–2017. Using the KLEMS and CMIE databases, we construct a unique dataset covering fifteen industrial sectors in India. We employ the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) approach to estimate the long-run relationship between employment and trade. For the full period of our study, we find that import penetration had a detrimental effect on employment while we find little evidence of any significant effect of export intensity on employment. There exists a structural break at 2004–2005, after which industrial sector has registered a decline in the rate of employment growth as well as India saw worsening of trade balance with ASEAN. Our results suggest that while export and import have had favorable impact on industrial sector employment prior to 2004–2005, AIFTA led to decline in industrial sector employment post 2004–2005.

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与东盟的贸易对印度工业部门就业的影响

摘要本文研究了 1996-1997 年至 2016-2017 年期间与东盟的贸易对印度产业层面就业的影响。利用 KLEMS 和 CMIE 数据库，我们构建了一个涵盖印度 15 个工业部门的独特数据集。我们采用集合均值组（PMG）方法来估计就业与贸易之间的长期关系。在整个研究期间，我们发现进口渗透对就业产生了不利影响，而出口密集度对就业的显著影响则证据不足。2004-2005 年出现了结构性中断，此后工业部门的就业增长率下降，印度与东盟的贸易平衡恶化。我们的研究结果表明，2004-2005 年之前，出口和进口对工业部门的就业产生了有利影响，而 2004-2005 年之后，《东盟与印度自由贸易协定》则导致了工业部门就业的下降。

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Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy ECONOMICS-

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3.70

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7.10%

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