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The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
Aghion, Philippe; Burgess, Robin; Redding, Stephen; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2007
We study whether the effects on registered manufacturing output of dismantling the License Raj – a system of central controls regulating entry and production activity in this sector – vary across Indian states with different labor market regulations. The effects are found to be unequal...
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HIV/AIDS and employment
N'Daba, Louis; Hodges-Aeberhard, Jane - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1998
Using an international comparative survey conducted by the ILO in 12 countries, examines the legal framework and enterprise practices (e.g. codes of conduct on AIDS, AIDS agreements concluded in important industrial sectors, as well as negative practices), the impact of the measures taken, and...
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Indian Labour Law and its Impact on Unemployment, 1970-2006: A leximetric study
Deakin, S.; Sarkar, P. - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2011
regulation. We undertake a time-series econometric analysis to estimate the impact of the strengthening of labour laws on … causality running from unemployment and output to labour regulation. …
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The Missing Middle
Krueger, Anne O. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Though recent economic growth in India has increased productivity and living standards significantly, the need for more growth and more reform remains. Rapid growth of unskilled labor-intensive manufacturing combined with growth of productivity in agriculture is necessary to enable a more...
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Indian Labour Regulation and Its Impact on Unemployment: A Leximetric Study, 1970-2006
Sarkar, Prabirjit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
aspects of labour law such as Alternative employment contracts, Regulation of working time, Regulation of dismissal, Employee … representation and Industrial action. Indian labour regulation is more concerned with the regulation of dismissal. It is more pro … friendly regulation leads to more unemployment and industrial stagnation. Rather the direction of causality is from …
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Is Pro-Labor Law Pro-Women? Evidence from India
Montag, Josef - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2013
I study the effects of state-level differences in labor regulation on labor market outcomes of women in India. Using a … representative sample of urban households from 2005, I find that labor regulation has a large negative effect on women’s economic … activity, mainly employment. My estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in the labor regulation measure …
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Size-dependent labor regulations and structural transformation in India
Cai, Wenbiao; Pandey, Manish - In: Economics Letters 119 (2013) 3, pp. 272-275
We calibrate a two-sector span-of-control model and show that size-dependent labor regulations generate the observed employment distribution across manufacturing establishments in India. We find that such regulations in manufacturing reduce productivity in agriculture and impede the process of...
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Is Pro-Labor Law Pro-Women? Evidence from India
Montag, Josef - Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova Univerzita v Brnĕ - 2013
This paper analyses the effects of state-level differences in labor regulation on labor market outcomes of women in … India. I find that labor regulation has a large negative effect on women’s economic activity, mainly employment. A one … standard deviation increase in the labor regulation measure decreases the probability of a woman being economically active by 3 …
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The Effects of Group Incentives in an Indian Firm - Evidence from Payroll Data
Bhattacherjee, Debashish - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2003
This paper estimates the effects of group incentives on productivity, pay and employment in a large unionised firm in India. Using plant-level monthly time series data from the payroll office for the period 1985-95, and controlling for both (plant) fixed effects and (contract) time effects, the...
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Are girls the fairer sex in India? Revisting intra-household allocation of education expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household of education with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas.  In addition to the traditional Engel method, the paper utilizes a Hurdle model to disentangle the decision to...
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