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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2019
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Working Paper No. 369
Verlag: 
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi
Zusammenfassung: 
The employment structure of India's organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India's rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we find that in addition to labour market rigidities and the existence of a wage differential between contract and directly hired workers, firms in the organised manufacturing sector have another important incentive to hire contract workers. Firms appear to be using contract workers to their strategic advantage against unionized directly hired workers to keep their bargaining power and wage demand in check. Importantly, the strength of this bargaining channel varies across firms depending on their capital intensity of production, size and existing contract worker intensity.
Schlagwörter: 
employment
wages
labour contracts
collective bargaining
labour productivity
JEL: 
E24
J38
J41
J58
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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