Labor Regulation and Employment in India's Retail Stores

• Tác giả: Mohammad Amin
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 205.64 Religious ethics [formerly 291.5]
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 328297
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCOUNTING; 2. ANNUAL LEAVE; 3. CHECKING; 4. DOWNWARD PRESSURE; 5. ECONOMICS

Tóm tắt

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.