Since 2014, several Indian states have taken steps towards easing labour regulations, the prominent ones among them being the raising of the threshold of applicability of Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) from 100 to 300 workers, lifting thereby the requirement of government...

A study undertaken by Ghani and associates (2013) on the organized-unorganized sector breakup of India's manufacturing employment has found persistence of the unorganized sector within manufacturing during 1989-90 to 2005-06. A similar analysis undertaken in the paper for a more recent period,...

Since 2014, several Indian states have taken steps towards easing labour regulations, the prominent one among them being the raising of the threshold of applicability of Chapter V-B of the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) from 100 to 300 workers, lifting thereby the requirement of government...

There has been limited research on the impact of labour regulations on the growth in manufacturing employment in India based on econometric analysis techniques. The research in this area has been mainly confined to the organized or formal sector of Indian manufacturing, which accounts for only...