A STUDY OF LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS IN ORGANISED MANUFACTURING SECTOR OF ODISHA, INDIA

This paper attempts to measure the trends of labour productivity in organised manufacturing sector of the state of Odisha, India during 1998-99 to 2008-09 and to know the structure and growth of registered manufacturing factory sector in the state. We have taken total factor productivity as the observed value which is defined as the ratio between the output and combined inputs. For the purpose of analyse the labour productivity index, a null hypotheses have been tested with alternative hypotheses with the help of chi-square test. We found from the study that the index of labour productivity is approximately as a straight-line trend in case of organised manufacturing sector of the state of Odisha, India but the growth rate of TFP (Total factor productivity) is fluctuating during the study period.