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 … data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we find that in addition to labour market rigidities and the existence of a wage …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract … between twenty unions and plantations, (b) mandated to respect a state government notification stipulating a new minimum wage … raised the baseline wage by 30% but lowered marginal incentives, by shifting the existing piece rates to higher minimum …

employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian … rigidities inhibiting employment expansion; but note needs to be taken of a ruling by the Supreme Court in 2001 which interpreted …

We examine the impact of economic deregulation on employer evasion of union-mandated "formal" wage-contracts in an … import-competing industry. We show that, if the state maintains industrial employment despite import liberalisation, through … cheaper credit to firms, then employer evasion will increase, due to a rise in the formal-informal wage gap. Institutional …

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