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Contract labour act in India: a pragmatic view

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  • Meenakshi Rajeev

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In order to surpass the stringent regulations, the industry sector in India is largely resorting to contract labourers, who are governed by an Act. A primary survey carried out in an industrially developed state in India, reveals that several stipulations made in the Act are not followed. The workers felt that collusive agreement between the labour inspector, and the entrepreneur (or the contractor) has aided the violation of law. We consider a game theoretic model of Marjit, Rajeev and Mukherjee (2000) to show why such an act is optimal and examine whether any provision of reward for the inspector independent of fines collected by him would help to protect the law.

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  • Meenakshi Rajeev, 2010. "Contract labour act in India: a pragmatic view," International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(3), pages 237-252.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijepee:v:3:y:2010:i:3:p:237-252
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    1. Basu, Arnab K. & Chau, Nancy H. & Soundararajan, Vidhya, 2019. "Wage fairness in a subcontracted labor market," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 24-42.
    2. Daniel Schwab, 2019. "Labor protection laws and the drain on productivity: Evidence from India," Working Papers 1906, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics.
    3. Radhicka Kapoor & P P Krishnapriya, 2019. "Explaining the contractualisation of India's workforce," Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Working Paper 369, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi, India.
    4. Radhicka Kapoor & P. P. Krishnapriya, 2019. "Explaining the contractualisation of India’s workforce," Working Papers id:12998, eSocialSciences.
    5. Shyam Sundar, K.R., 2011. "Non-regular workers in India : social dialogue and organizational and bargaining strategies and practices," ILO Working Papers 994665563402676, International Labour Organization.
    6. Daniel Schwab, 2020. "Labor protection laws and the drain on productivity: Evidence from India," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(2), pages 383-401, May.
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