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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian …One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act …
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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India: Balancing protection and flexibility
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015
The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … regulations, focusing on the enactments and provisions that inhibit flexibility of manufacturing enterprises in adapting to swift … changes in the conditions of competition in international markets. The regulations in India that impinge on labour flexibility …
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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014
output and employment in this sector. We find that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector … decade partly explains the limited contribution of the manufacturing sector to employment generation. At the state level, we …Despite witnessing a decade of rapid economic growth, an acceleration of growth in the organised manufacturing sector …
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Employment growth in Indian manufacturing : post-Reforms trends and indications for labour flexibility debate
Papola, Trilok Singh - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 57 (2014) 4, pp. 351-372
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Institutionalist versus distortionist views of labor market reforms : an investigation into the post-liberalized manufacturing sector in India
Bhandari, Anup Kumar; Arun Sudarsan - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 21 (2016) 41, pp. 63-72
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, i.e., pro-worker amendment in labour laws induces employment. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875180
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Institutionalist versus Distortionist Views of Labor Market Reforms : An Investigation into the Post-Liberalized Manufacturing Sector in India
Bhandari, Anup Kumar - 2017
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, i.e., pro-worker amendment in labour laws induces employment. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951813
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Labour market flexibility and changes in employment : spatial and temporal evidence from Indian manufacturing
Roy, Gopal Krishna; Dubey, Amaresh; Ramaiah, Suresh - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 63 (2020) 1, pp. 81-98
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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms
Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017
countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus on the main pillars of labour market institutions, as employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115200
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Labor Market Tightness and Union Activity
Pezold, Chantal; Jäger, Simon; Nüß, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study how labor market conditions affect unionization decisions. Tight labor markets might spur unionization, e.g., by reducing the threat of unemployment after management opposition or employer retaliation in response to a unionization attempt. Tightness might also weaken unionization by...
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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016
manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms …
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