Labor regulation and employment relation has been investigated in India in light of the seminal work of Besley and Burgess (2004), considering formal sector manufacturing employment as the explained variable. Empirical findings support, although not very strongly, the institutionalist view,...

This paper looks at how the entry of a multinational in the domestic market of an industry in a developing country affects the total industry wide employment. It is assumed that the technology of the multinational is more efficient than the domestic technology. Standard Cournot oligopoly and...

There has been limited research on the impact of labour regulations on the growth in manufacturing employment in India based on econometric analysis techniques. The research in this area has been mainly confined to the organized or formal sector of Indian manufacturing, which accounts for only...