Labor Regulation and Employment in India's Retail Stores

A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India shows that 27% of the stores find labor regulations as a problem for their business. Using these data, we analyze the effect of labor regulations on employment at the store level. We find that flexible labor regulations have a strong positive effect on j...

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Main Author: Amin, Mohammad
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5607