Labour Market Regulation and Industrial Performance in India: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence

By Aditya Bhattacharjea. 2007

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• Economic Liberalization and Indian Economic Growth: What's the Evidence? (2011, background): “Anant et al (2006) and Bhattacharjea (2006) point out that the application of the law has a greater bearing on labor outcomes than the written law.”
• The Evolution of Labour Law: Calibrating and Comparing Regulatory Regimes (2007, background): “9 Botero et al. (2004) simply refer to the ‘laws of each country’ as their primacy source and refer to a number of ‘cross-country secondary sources’.”
• Labor regulations and contract labor use: Evidence from Indian firms (2015, background): “Other scholars however, have questioned whether amendments made to the IDA have increased or decreased flexibility in firing [Bhattacharjea (2006)] or whether these regulations have even been enforced [Nagaraj (2002)]. There is some evidence that the use of contract workers (employed through contrac”
• Trade liberalization and unemployment: Theory and evidence from India (2012, unknown): “17 See also Bhattacharjea (2006) for a critique of the Besley-Burgess coding.”
• Labor Market Regulations: What Do We Know About Their Impacts in Developing Countries? (2014, unknown): “6 If there is a consensus view now, it is likely similar to the conclusion drawn by the OECD in its reexamination of the Job Strategy: “the considerable number of studies [that] have found that the adverse impact of minimum wages on employment is modest or non-existent” (2006: 86).”
• Labour Regulation and Employment Dynamics at the State Level in India (2009, unknown): “A series of economy-wide studies have examined the role of two key amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) affecting collective dismissals (see Anant et al., 2006; Bhattacharjea, 2006).”
• Informal employment: Two contested policy issues (2008, methodology): “Their study (and others using the Besley-Burgess indicator) has come under a number of criticisms, most extensively from Bhattacharjea (2006).”