Law, skills and the creation of jobs as ‘contract’ work in India: exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform

Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Kukreja, Prateek

doi:10.1007/s41027-018-0113-8

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“…Manufacture of Food Products; Manufacture of Textiles; Manufacture of Wearing Apparel; Manufacture of Leather and Leather Products; Manufacture of Computer, Electronic and Optical Products; Manufacture of Electrical Equipment; Manufacture of Motor Vehicles, Trailers and Semi-Trailers; and Manufacture of Other Transport Equipment. Further details regarding the survey can be gathered from our work that used data from the survey to investigate the employment of contract labour, one study covering the entire sample (Singh et al 2019a ), and another a sub-sample confined to the state of Haryana (Singh et al 2017 ), as well as a study looking at union activity in the manufacturing sector (Singh et al 2019b ).…”

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Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey

Singh

Das

Kumar

2022

Ind. J. Labour Econ.

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Successive Indian governments have attempted to increase the growth in employment alongside encouraging skill enhancement. Against this background, we empirically explore issues surrounding the investment in specific capital by workers. In particular, we try to discern the presence of specific human capital investment by investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages and find that there is indeed such a link evident in India. This allows us to infer that it is valuable to have long-term relations between employers and their workers and therefore labour market institutions that support long-term employer–employee relationship need to be encouraged.

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Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey

Singh

Das

Kumar

2022

Ind. J. Labour Econ.

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“…However, the use of a contract worker has its demerits. As it is an 'incomplete contract', the workers' underinvest in specific skills (Singh, Das, Abhishek, and Kukreja 2019;Singh, Das, Kukreja, and Abhishek 2017).…”

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Labor Reforms in Rajasthan: A Boon or a Bane?

Goswami

Paul

2020

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“…At another level, the issue is that this arrangement for jobs in factories through contractors will discourage the temporary workers from making an investment (in terms of human capital) in the jobs they are doing. See Singh et al (2017).…”

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Export Participation and Employment of Contract Workers in Organized Manufacturing Plants in India

Goldar

2023

Journal of South Asian Development

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The share of contract workers, i.e., the workers employed through contractors, as against the workers directly employed by factories, out of all workers employed in India’s organized manufacturing has increased significantly over the last three decades, reaching 38.6% in 2019–2020. Using plant-level panel data for the years 2008–2009 to 2017–2018, the paper examines econometrically whether export participation by the organized sector manufacturing plants in India induced them to hire contract workers. The empirical results indicate that the export market participation by manufacturing plants tends to raise their probability of employing contract workers. This effect of export participation on the probability of employing contract workers is found for plants in the medium-low and low-technology industries, and the impact is bigger in the medium-high and high-technology industries. The effect is found to be relatively stronger for bigger plants than small-sized plants. In high-technology industries, in-house firm-specific skill formation is important for firms for their being able to export their products, and, hence, in many technology-oriented plants of these industries export participation should not induce them to employ contract workers. Some support for this hypothesis is found in the empirical results obtained in the study.

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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as ‘contract’ work in India: exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey

Specific Human Capital and Skills in Indian Manufacturing: Observed Wage and Tenure Relationships from a Worker Survey

Labor Reforms in Rajasthan: A Boon or a Bane?

Export Participation and Employment of Contract Workers in Organized Manufacturing Plants in India

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