Labor Laws and Manufacturing Performance in India: How Priors Trump Evidence and Progress Gets Stalled
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Keywords
Manufacturing performance; industrial relations; pro-worker regulation; labor laws; Indian economy; Industrial Disputes Act (IDA);All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
- C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2019-12-02 (Development)
- NEP-HME-2019-12-02 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
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