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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015
are collective dismissal, fixed term contracts, contract labour, trade unions and unemployment insurance. Although the …
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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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Born under a bad sign : the impact of finishing school when labour markets are weak
Regan, Mark; Roantree, Barra - 2021
This paper provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623701
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How far from full employment? : the European unemployment problem revisited
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Lichtenberger, Andreas - 2024
Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507179
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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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Environment, health and labor market
Pautrel, Xavier - 2017
We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672535
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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022
, greater average firm productivity, a larger formal employment share, and a marginally lower unemployment rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496287
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Climate policies, labor markets, and macroeconomic outcomes in emerging economies
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2023
economies (EMEs) by building a framework with equilibrium unemployment and firm entry that incorporates key elements of the …-employment, labor participation, and unemployment. As a result, the tax generates output and welfare losses. Green technology adoption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014460792
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538591
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US free trade agreements and enforcement of labor law in Latin America
Dewan, Sabina; Ronconi, Lucas - 2014
This paper analyzes whether Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) signed between the United States and Latin American countries during the last decade produced higher enforcement of labor regulations. The paper computes before-after estimates of the effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits...
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