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This paper analyses a new leximetric dataset on Indian labour law over a long period 1970-2006. There are five broad aspects of labour law such as Alternative employment contracts, Regulation of working time, Regulation of dismissal, Employee representation and Industrial action. Indian labour...
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This paper analysed the OECD data on employment protection for 23 OECD countries over the time span 1990-2008 on the basis of alternative dynamic panel data models and panel causality tests and examines the validity of the neo-liberal argument that strictness of employment protection hurts...
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Departing from a stable industrial relationship, supported by logic of economic massification and the correspondent legal framework, it is our objective to approach the new industrial relations environment, emerging from the modifications on the enterprise organisation models, towards the new...
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This paper examines the state of labour protection in four countries (UK, USA, France and Germany) during 1970-2006. It supports the contention of the legal-origin theory that UK and USA (common law countries) intervene less in the labour market and grant less protection to labourers. It also...
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Atypical work refers to employment relationships, which do not conform to the standard model of full-time job of unlimited duration with a single employer. They differ from the typical contract in terms of legal regulations as well as requirements and benefits the worker is entitled to. This...
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Measuring the contribution of services to the Indian economy is a challenging task because it presents problems not encountered in the primary and secondary sectors. The authors discuss problems found particularly in quantifying the contribution of the banking and software sectors and suggest...
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The ideology of globalization and its practice based on neo-liberal paradigm has played a vital role in re-arranging the architecture of global economic and political order. Central to this new economic dispensation is a shift in the role of the state, particularly in its commitment towards the...
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Over the last few years, many attempts have been made to implement VAT in India. Initially, all states were to move to … in India seem to present numerous administrative and constitutional difficulties, including the vexed question of union …-state relations. In addition to this, implementing VAT in India in context of economic reforms has paradoxical dimensions. On one hand …
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relationship between the domestic saving and investment rates in India by controlling for the level of financial liberalization …
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Micro-Finance is emerging as a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation in the new economy. In India, micro … agricultural business development services. When compared to the wider SHG bank linkage movement in India, private MFIs have had …-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFCs). This changing face of microfinance in India appears to be positive in terms of the ability of …
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