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Financial dependence, labour regimes and industry growth: Do creditor rights matter?
Using 3-digit industry data at the state-level during 2009–2018, the paper assesses the impact of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) on growth...
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Examining the ‘Labour’ in Labour Migration: Migrant Workers’ Informal Work Arrangements and Access to Labour Rights in Urban Sectors
The mass exodus of India’s internal migrant workers, from urban areas, back to their villages during the Covid-19 lockdown was met with an outpouring...
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Employment protection and labour productivity growth in the EU: skill-specific effects during and after the Great Recession
Does employment protection affect sectoral productivity growth differently during crises and recovery periods? This paper sheds light into this...
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Child labour and schooling in Tanzania
In this paper, I examine child labour and schooling in Tanzania. I use Tanzania Labour Force Survey data containing detailed information on children...
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Pioneers in Indian Labour Studies, 1900–1930
The paper discusses the work of early Indian professional economists in the field of labour. They undertook wide-ranging studies of labour in...
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Labour Rights, Full Employment, Mental Model Choice and a Dynamic Market Economy
I model how labour rights, providing workers and management with effective voice, combined with full employment contributes to a dynamic, more...
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Industrial Organisation, Employment and Labour Regulations: Understanding Recent Changes in India
The article takes stock, along with the key arguments that have animated labour regulation and deregulation debates (leading to the recent...
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Economic development through women’s economic rights: a panel data analysis
Increasing gender equality and enhancing women empowerment through work opportunities are the important steps in achieving sustainable development....
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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Labour Force Participation Rate of Women: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis
To empirically test the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on female labour force participation rate, we developed two hypotheses in the...
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ICTs and Globalisation in the African Labour Market
This study investigates the effect of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and globalisation on employment and labour productivity...
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Severance payments: main effects and determinants on the labour market
This article presents a survey of the recent empirical literature analysing both the effects and determinants of severance pay on the labour market....
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Effects of COVID-19 on Tea Plantation Workers in India: Issues of Labour Market Institutions
This paper discusses the effects of COVID-19-induced pandemic on tea plantation workers during lockdown phases in India. The tea industry, being a...
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Industrial policy and labour productivity growth in Africa: does the technology choice matter?
The persistent gaps in African sectoral labour productivity and the disappointing growth in the manufacturing and service sectors have revived...
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Do Labour Welfare Policies Matter for Workers? Evidence from the Garment Supply Chain Industry in Bangladesh
The paper focusses on workers’ opinions in regard to welfare policies enacted under the Bangladesh Labour Act 2006. The study investigates two...
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Skill heterogeneity and market labour income inequality
Occupational choice models predict that, ceteris paribus, countries with higher dispersion of skill will have higher market labour income inequality....
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International Labour Migration
The chapter begins with a paragraph on the theoretical foundations of international labour migration. The following paragraphs discuss the global...
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Status of Social Security Provisions in Urban Unorganised Labour Market of Uttar Pradesh: A Field Check
Women workers in the informal economy are in extremely vulnerable situations, with no protection through labour laws, no effective policy measures to...
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Indigenous rights, social media and protest movements in Sápmi
Following the rush to minerals that would enable the shift towards green economies, the Sámi homeland is quickly becoming a crucible for the rising...
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Socio-economic geography and the land rights of indigenous peoples in Paraguay
The article investigates the long-term tendencies of Paraguayan political-economy, in particular the mounting impacts of export-oriented agribusiness...
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The impact of labour market shocks on mental health: evidence from the Covid-19 first wave
In this study, we estimate the effect of a negative labour market shock on individuals’ levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. We use a dataset...
