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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations
Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
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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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Comment les ruptures conventionnelles ont transformé le marché du travail
Batut, Cyprien; Maurin, Eric - 2019
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Heterogeneous paths to stability
Di Porto, Edoardo; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022
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The impact of expanding worker rights to informal workers : evidence from child labor legislation
Lakdawala, Leah K.; Heredia, Diana Martínez; Vera … - 2023
We study the effects of a Bolivian law that introduced benefits and protections for child workers (who are overwhelmingly informal workers) and lowered the de facto legal working age from 14 to 10. We employ a difference-in-discontinuity approach that exploits the variation in the law's...
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Employee representation legislations and innovation
Belloc, Filippo - 2016
We analyse how countries' innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...
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Creative labour in the era of Covid‑19 : the case of freelancers
Pulignano, Valeria; Domecka, Markieta; Muszyński, Karol; … - 2021
solutions for freelancers working in the creative industries, who are among those have suffered the most from the economic … freelancers in the creative industries. Moreover, those who have been guaranteed access to national government support are often …. Finally, career development and employability are vulnerable areas for freelancers due to there being a lack of (or …
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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay
Fella, Giulio - 2012
This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but not new, matches. Mandated severance pay matters only if binding real wage rigidities imply inefficient separation under employment at will. In such a case, large enough severance...
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Motivate and select : relational contracts with persistent types
Nikolowa, Radoslawa - 2014
We develop a model of relational contracts with moral hazard and asymmetric persistent information about an employee's type. We find that the form of the optimal contract depends on the job characteristics as well as the distribution of employees' talent. Bonus contracts are more likely to be...
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