Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India

By Timothy J. Besley, Robin Burgess. 2004

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China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and implications for China’s workers (2013, background): “…on the impact of labor regulations on employment in developing countries which find that labor regulations reduce employment and increase unemployment (Besley and Burgess, 2004; Ahsan and Pages, 2009; Fledmann, 2009; Djankov and Ramalho, 2009; Kaplan, 2009; Amin, 2007; Fallon and Lucas, 1993).”
Employment Protection Legislation, Adjustment Costs and Cross-Country Differences in Cost Behavior (2012, background): “…Bentolila and Bertola (1990), Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993), Mortensen and Pissarides (1999), Heckman et al. (2000), Blanchard and Portugal (2001), Besley and Burgess (2004), Botero et al. (2004), Boeri and Jimeno (2005), Haltiwanger et al. (2006), Micco and Pages (2006), Autor et al. (2007),…”
Employment Regulations Through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them? (2004, positive): “Besley and Burgess (2004) found that amendments to the strict employment regulation in Andra Pradesh, one Indian state, in the 1980s contributed to raise significantly employment and growth in the next decade.”
Entrepreneurial finance, credit cards, and race☆ (2012, methodology): “To allow for different trends across market areas we include an interaction between a time trend and the market fixed effect Trendndm, an approach that follows Besley and Burgess (2004) and Wolfers (2006).”
The Demographic Dividend: Evidence from the Indian States (2011, positive): “Cumulative labor reforms index: Besley and Burgess (2004) examine state amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act of 1947, and code all amendments as being pro-worker, pro-employer or neutral.”
Labour Market Regulation and Industrial Performance in India: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence (2007, positive): “And at least for poverty the statistical correlates are well-known and available in series going back to 1960.17 Besley and Burgess (2004) also ignore the allocation of industrial licences by the central government, which was a significant determinant of industrial location for most of their…”
Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence (2014, background): “Because the expected takeover premium SX p 2 exp 12 SX 2 is increasing in SX , (12) implies that the more innovative project results in a higher takeover premium than the less innovative project.”
Electricity Provision and Industrial Development: Evidence from India (2012, methodology): “In Columns (3) and (4) I split industries according to their intensity in electricity usage, using an input-output matrix for all India industries, and find that the effect of electrification on industrial output is only present for industries that are above the median in electricity (19)Unreported ”
High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of Centralized Bargaining in South Africa (2012, background): “By means of comparison, Bertrand and Kramarz (2002) estimate that French entry regulations reduce food retail employment by about 7%, Besley and Burgess (2004) estimate that labor regulation reduced manufacturing employment in India by 7%, and Harrison and Scorce (2008) find that a 50% increase in…”