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One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act … referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian …
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these taxes to address concerns about rising obesity. We demonstrate the range of impacts a tax on added sugar and salt …-responsive firms and consumers, and everything in between. Fully responsive firms would reformulate products to reduce sugar and salt … salt on other products. In the remainder of this paper we describe the data in more detail (section 2), show the impact of …
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survey of companies engaged in organic food business in India and the United Kingdom (UK), examines how organic food can …
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This paper provides new measures of labor law enforcement across the world. The constructed dataset shows that countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de jure labor codes as predicted by legal origin theory,...
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This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes are closely associated. Using cluster analysis, the author highlights historical legacies in current welfare policies, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been...
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