A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of … regulation on employment at the store level. We find that stricter labor regulation has a strong negative effect on employment …. Our estimates show that labor reforms are likely to increase employment by 22 percent of the current level for an average …

wide number of formal jobs, and even informal, increasing the unemployment rates to pre-crisis levels. Manufacturing was …

This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …'s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on wages, labor supply, agricultural labor use, and productivity …. The scheme prompted a 10-point wage increase and higher labor supply to nonagricultural casual work and agricultural self-employment …

not experienced growth in employment, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in transitional economies and labeled as jobless … industrial manufacturing and because the agricultural infrastructure is depleted and underinvested. Industry has progressively … lost its manufacturing capacity, and focuses on capital-intensive, highly productive sectors, and provides good wages for …

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of … absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to … female labor force participation. The connection between the presence of informal manufacturing and local productivity levels …

This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services … with low population density. Diversity correlates with disproportionately higher employment growth in the informal sector … and plays a role in generating employment in the district's smaller industries. These findings point toward the "inclusive …

association between digital technology use by firms and a country's statutory minimum wage and employment protection regulations …, and trade openness. To ensure the broadest country coverage, the paper develops new indexes of employment protection …

increase job security or increase the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output but … concludes that widespread and increasing use of contract labor may have brought some output and employment gains but did not …

sources, this paper quantifies noncompliance for India's Factories Act without the question of illegality ever being raised … the Factories Act is a key feature of the "missing middle" in India. The paper explores the main trends and patterns of …

This paper addresses three areas of the rural labor market-employment, labor wages, and agriculture producer incomes … employment in rural Argentina, findings suggest that key determinants of access to employment and productivity in nonfarm … activities are education, skills, land access, location, and gender. Employment analyses show that women have higher probability …