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 …One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act …

output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector …

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and … Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support …, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view, i.e., pro-worker amendment in labour laws induces employment. Among the …

Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and … Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support …, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view, i.e., pro-worker amendment in labour laws induces employment. Among the …

manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms …

There has been limited research on the impact of labour regulations on the growth in manufacturing employment in India … sector of Indian manufacturing, which accounts for only about 20-25 per cent of the total manufacturing employment in India … labour reforms significantly positively impacted manufacturing employment in India and contributed to employment growth …