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This paper extends an earlier critique (Bhattacharjea 2006) of the empirical literature on labour regulation and industrial performance in India, but focuses more narrowly on the impact of legal restrictions on layoffs, retrenchment and plant closures. After summarizing the earlier paper, it...
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We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years. We use new machine learning...
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This study determined the effect of workplace safety on employee productivity in manufacturing firms in Kenya. Moreover … risk transfer) and employee productivity, measured by productive time, degree of accomplishment of tasks, and value … workplace safety programmes and their effect on employees’ productivity. Future research should address employees’ safety …
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Since the early 1990s, there have been larger and increasing labor productivity differences across industries in Japan … stylized facts, we first evaluate the input-output structure of Japan through the lens of a community-detection algorithm from … Japan in the context of each network structure. Results suggest that divergence is mostly driven by the transitional …
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