India that provide fall back mechanisms and evaluates how they compare with systems in selected comparator countries and …

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 …

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 … employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian …

The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last … has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level …

determining India's stand if the same or similar provisions are proposed in multilateral, plurilateral or bilateral agreements in … future. Analysis in the paper shows that if TPP like provisions are incorporated in multilateral trade agreements, for India … by a move to alter the position. On the other hand, if India accepts the proposition there is the unwelcome prospect of …

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India … (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for 97 industries at the 4-digit disaggregate level was computed for … the period 1990-91 to 2003-04. The study identifies 31 industries as ‘labor intensive industries’ within India’s organized …

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to …

countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de … stringent de jure labor regulations, lower overall labor inspection, and larger differences in effective regulation of bigger …

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