Theory and economic intuition suggest that domestic institutions influence the employment impact of economic reform … labour market flexibility shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in informal (unregistered …) manufacturing enterprises in India (1990-2001). It employs a difference-in-differences strategy and finds that tariff reductions are …

shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …

A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of … regulation on employment at the store level. We find that stricter labor regulation has a strong negative effect on employment …. Our estimates show that labor reforms are likely to increase employment by 22 percent of the current level for an average …