referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … manufacturing sector across a spectrum of industries, this increasing contractualisation of the workforce has not been typically … the use of 'contract' workers in formal manufacturing. These empirical patterns help us generate hypotheses for further …

virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 200,000 firms and 54 million workers per … wages increase by about 45%. The results are based on multiple instrumental variables, including firm-specific international … country: RS is weaker in firms with more women and less educated workers; RS involves an element of risk sharing, as wages …

virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 52 million workers per year. We find … understand better the nature of RS in the country: it involves an element of risk sharing, as wages also decrease when profits … fall; RS is lower in regions with more latent competition from rural workers; higher minimum wages tend to reduce RS; and …

classify 30 comparable manufacturing industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in terms of the type of competition …

rich panel of manufacturing firms in Belgium, a small open economy. We find that union bargaining power is higher in …

manufacturing and service industries in 6 distinct regimes that differ in the type of competition prevailing in product and labor …

from West German manufacturing industries seems to be neither positively nor negatively related to two core firm …