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Imposition of MAT on SEZs : concerns and the way forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Bhardwaj, Bhavook - 2016
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a type of managed industrial cluster which focuses on exports and encourages the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and technology. These "special" zones are given a range of fiscal and non-fiscal incentives, which are not available to firms located in the...
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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador
Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022
To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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Konjunkturanalyse for Bornholm, 1987 til 1996. Kapitel 3: arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996
Lund, Lars - 2001
of unemployment and wages or wage incomes. Participation rates and migrations are also touched upon. An expectation that … equilibrium values of relative wages and rates of unemployment after a business cycle. …
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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The macroeconomic effects of a carbon tax to meet the U.S. Paris Agreement target: the role of firm creation and technology adoption
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021
externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of … consumption and output; a marginal increase in the unemployment and labor force participation rates; and an expansion in the … accompanied by gradual gains in output and consumption and a negligible expansion in unemployment. Critically, abstracting from …
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Full employment : a survey of theory, empirics and policies
Lichtenberger, Andreas; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, … - 2024
unemployment and maximum employment approaches; and the unfilled vacancies perspective. Furthermore, we provide and discuss …
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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015
are collective dismissal, fixed term contracts, contract labour, trade unions and unemployment insurance. Although the …
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Creating manufacturing jobs in India : has openness to trade really helped?
Vashisht, Pankaj - 2015
After following inward oriented economic policies for nearly four decades, India opened up to international trade in the early 1990s. Since then, the trade integration of the Indian economy in general and the manufacturing sector in particular has increased phenomenally. Against this backdrop,...
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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970 (CLA,1970), which regulates labour hired by firms through the offices of a labour contractor - such labour being referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper...
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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016
The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...
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