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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/11540/9099.
    Keywords
    Development Challenges
    Asian Development Bank
    Development Management
    Skills Development
    Performance Evaluation
    Evaluation Methods
    Evaluation
    Job Evaluation
    Staff Development
    Job Evaluation
    Evaluation
    Performance Evaluation
    Program Evaluation
    The Development Agenda
    Staff Development
    Skills Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Project Evaluation & Review Technique
    Project Evaluation
    Program Evaluation
    Performance Evaluation
    Operations Evaluation
    Evaluation Methods
    Economic development
    Standard of living
    Trade development
    Employment
    Performance appraisal
    Needs assessment
    Input output analysis
    ADB
    Employment
    Performance appraisal
    Project failure
    Project impact
    Project appraisal
    Career development
    Vocational training
    Contract Labor
    Labor policy
    Manpower policy
    Promotions
    Career development
    Job analysis
    Participative management
    Grievance procedures
    Supervisors
    Vocational guidance
    Rural manpower policy
    Career development
    Applications for positions
    Affirmative action programs
    Labor turnover
    Self-evaluation
    Supervisors
    Cumulative effects assessment
    Participatory monitoring and evaluation
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    Singh, Jaivir
    Das, Deb Kusum
    Choudhury, Homagni
    Kukreja, Prateek
    Theme
    Development
    Evaluation
     
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