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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; Kukreja, Prateek | September 2016
    Abstract
    The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of ‘contract labour’ in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and technology shocks, by bringing in the concept of ‘incomplete contracts’. Apart from the ASI data, we use the responses from a specially commissioned survey in Haryana: a state having a well-established industrial base with a large pool of skilled labour force, in order to gain empirical insights on the links between law, skills and the extensive use of ‘contract’ labour. The paper then goes on to discuss some theoretical literature emphasising the importance of relationship specific investments for skills and proceeds to emphasize the role of the labour law in this context. It is strongly hoped that these findings will be used to comment on the costs and benefits of the ‘contract’ labour system and its variants across South Asia, particularly in view of moves to reform labour law in South Asia.
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    Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Kukreja, Prateek. 2016. Law, Skills and the Creation of Jobs as ‘Contract’ Work in India: Exploring Survey Data to make Inferences for Labour Law Reform. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6696.
    Keywords
    Crisis
    Unemployment
    Economic cooperation
    Gross domestic product
    Employment
    Economic forecast
    Economic Crisis
    Economic Efficiency
    Economic Policies
    Regional Economic Development
    Job Evaluation
    Evaluation
    Financial crisis
    Labor economics
    Regional economics
    Turnover
    Economic survey
    Job analysis
    Labor turnover
    International relief
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    Singh, Jaivir
    Das, Deb Kusum
    Choudhury, Homagni
    Kukreja, Prateek
    Theme
    Economics
    Evaluation
     
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