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Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...
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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 …
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the digital labour platforms for labour regulation in China and the potential applicability of existing laws and … focus on working conditions in China, followed by analysis on how labour regulation is complicated by the platform business …
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This paper offers a legal and an economic analysis of collective dismissals procedures. First, it explains the economic rationale for having collective dismissal procedures in place, in light of the fact that labour markets are not perfect. Second, it overviews the international labour standards...
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