Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India
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- Sean Dougherty & Verónica C. Frisancho Robles & Kala Krishna, 2011. "Employment Protection Legislation and Plant-Level Productivity in India," NBER Working Papers 17693, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Keywords
difference-in-differences; différence des différences; firm heterogeneity; hétérogénéité des entreprises; labour regulation; productivité totale des facteurs; réformes au niveau des États; réglementation du travail; state-level reforms; total factor productivity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
- J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
- J8 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards
- K31 - Law and Economics - - Other Substantive Areas of Law - - - Labor Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EFF-2012-01-03 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-REG-2012-01-03 (Regulation)
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