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 …One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act …

output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector …

manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms …

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 … on jobs in the Indian manufacturing sector. Using the growth accounting approach, we find that the direct impact of trade …

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …

information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by ICRIER, as part of a World Bank … finding, however, pertains to the 'skills' variable. We find that firms with a higher employment of unskilled workers are more …

quantifies this question by employing observable and reliable data on green manufacturing production for an extensive set of EU … countries and 4-digit manufacturing industries for over a decade. First, at a descriptive level, this paper documents that … potentially green industries outperform the others in terms of employment, average wages, value added and productivity, net of …

employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally … contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

In this paper, we undertake an evaluation of the laws governing wages in India, identify their shortcomings and offer … regulations in India do not measure up to the standards adopted in peer countries and in some respect fall short of the …

importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … different approaches. Secondary data analysis tells us that high value manufacturing in India exists only in islands. Cross … analysis and case study interviews help us arrive at recommendations on mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India. …