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Labor Regulation and Employment in India's Retail Stores

A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of the stores report labor regulations as a problem for their business. Using these data we analyze the effect of labor regulat...

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Main Author:	Amin, Mohammad
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING ANNUAL LEAVE CHECKING DOWNWARD PRESSURE ECONOMICS EMPLOYMENT HOURS OF WORK INCOME INVENTORY JOB CREATION JOBS LABOR FORCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR LAWS LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR REGULATION LABOR REGULATIONS LEGISLATION MATERNITY LEAVE MOTIVATION OVERTIME OVERTIME WORK PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT PERMANENT WORKERS POLITICAL ECONOMY PRIVATE SECTOR PROFITABILITY REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT RESERVE BANK OF INDIA RULES SAVINGS SERVICE SECTOR TAX ADMINISTRATION TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT TEMPORARY WORKERS TOTAL EMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE DISPERSION WAGES WORK IN PROGRESS WORKER WORKERS WORKING WORKING CONDITIONS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/08/8088492/labor-regulation-employment-indias-retail-stores http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7270

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Summary:	A new dataset of 1,948 retail stores in India compiled by the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys shows that 27 percent of the stores report labor regulations as a problem for their business. Using these data we analyze the effect of labor regulation on employment at the store level. We find that stricter labor regulation has a strong negative effect on employment. Our estimates show that labor reforms are likely to increase employment by 22 percent of the current level for an average store.