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Explaining the contractualisation of India's workforce

Kapoor, Radhicka; Krishnapriya, P. P. - 2019

The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to...

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Incentive Contracts and Institutional Labor Market Design

Gogova, Martina N. - 2013

This paper analyzes a labor market, where firms offer workers incentive contracts and make decisions about irreversible capital investments. The state authority regulates the institutional framework by choosing the level of unemployment benefits and the workers' bargaining power. Our results...

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Moving towards a single labour contract : pros, cons and mixed feelings

Lepage-Saucier, Nicolas; Schleich, Juliette; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013

This paper discusses the pros and cons of a single labour contract. After reviewing the current state of dualism in labour markets and the recent labour reforms in Europe, we discuss the various proposals to eliminate dualism. Next, we emphasise the costs of dualism and discuss whether they...

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Labour Market Regulation in the Eu-15 : Causes and Consequences - a Survey

Siebert, Stanley - 2006

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960

Campos, Nauro F. - 2012

of regulation and is almost exclusively based on international cross-section data for the post-1995 period. This paper …

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Labor Market Dynamics Under Long-Term Wage Contracting

Rudanko, Leena - 2009

Recent research seeking to explain the strong cyclicality of US unemployment emphasizes the role of wage rigidity. This paper proposes a micro-founded model of wage rigidity - an equilibrium business cycle model of job search, where risk neutral firms post optimal long-term contracts to attract...

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Productivity Shocks, Long-Term Contracts and Earnings Dynamics

Balke, Neele; Lamadon, Thibaut - 2020

This paper examines how employer- and worker-specific productivity shocks transmit to earnings and employment in an economy with search frictions and firm commitment. We develop an equilibrium search model with worker and firm shocks and characterize the optimal contract offered by competing...

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Matching, wage rigidities and efficient severance pay

Fella, Giulio - 2012

This paper studies the effect of mandated severance pay in a matching model featuring wage rigidity for ongoing, but not new, matches. Mandated severance pay matters only if binding real wage rigidities imply inefficient separation under employment at will. In such a case, large enough severance...

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Fixed Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model

Alvarez, Fernando - 2006

Fixed term employment contracts have been introduced in a number of European countries as a way to provide flexibility to economies with high employment protection levels. We introduce these contracts into the equilibrium search model in Alvarez and Veracierto (1999), a version of the Lucas and...

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From deregulation to re-regulation : trend reversal in German labour market institutions and its possible implications

Walwei, Ulrich - 2015

respect to the overall improvement of the German labour market and shifts in the employment structure? How could re-regulation … structure but definitely not the only one. This result suggests that with regard to the potential effects of recent re-regulation … Bundesregierung leiteten zuletzt eine Re-Regulierung ein, die auf eine Stärkung von Arbeitnehmerrechten zielt. Dies geschah vor dem …

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