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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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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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Migrant nurses and care workers rights in Canada
Salami, Bukola; Amodu, Oluwakemi; Okeke-Ihejirika, Philomena - 2016
Between 2000 and 2014, there was increasing mobility of migrant workers to Canada, especially through temporary … within the changing policy landscape in Canada, with a focus on individuals who migrate as domestic caregivers and as nurses … migrate to Canada as migrant caregivers. It finds that the Canadian government has restricted access to citizenship rights for …
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A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015
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ICT diffusion and firm-level performance : case studies for Belgium
Huveneers, Christian (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Impact of quality-based procedures on orthopedic care quantity and quality in Ontario hospitals
Proshin, Alex; Rochaix, Lise; Dass, Adrian Rohit; … - 2020
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Employment and working conditions in the bioeconomy in Finland and Germany
Fritz, Martin - 2022
This working paper introduces a method of measuring the bioeconomy for the purpose of assessing the social structure and working conditions of persons working in bioeconomic jobs. Previous measurements only allow aggregate level estimations of financial and economic contributions of the...
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Trade liberalization, collective bargaining and workers : wages and working conditions
Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2022
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Working conditions in Europe : the role of global value chains and advanced digital production-driven technological specialisation
Nikulin, Dagmara; Parteka, Aleksandra; … - 2022
This paper’s analysis of working conditions in Europe compares several aspects of job quality and wages, rather than relying on earnings as a sole indicator of workers’ well-being.We use a micro-level database of workers from 22 European countries to assess how global value chains (GVCs) and...
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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009
This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...
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