. This effect is particularly strong for two components of workers' protection: worker representation laws and employment …

import-competing industry. We show that, if the state maintains industrial employment despite import liberalisation, through …

employment protection pursued in the UK over the last three decades and within the European Union more recently. It does so by … comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity performance with those of three countries - France, Germany and Sweden … - that possess more stringent employment protection laws. The findings reveal that while productivity growth in the UK was …

employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally … contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing …. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where …