The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … changes in the conditions of competition in international markets. The regulations in India that impinge on labour flexibility …

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 … referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing …

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

, such as illness, employment injury, death or old age. This paper critically reviews and analyses existing regulations in … India that provide fall back mechanisms and evaluates how they compare with systems in selected comparator countries and …

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 …

has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of … 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 …

greater de facto flexibility, reducing employment losses during bad times? To tackle these questions, we exploit local …) larger losses in overall em-ployment; and (iii) greater reductions in the number of formal plants. Regions with weaker …

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …