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Factors influencing Indian manufacturing firms' decision to hire contract labour
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2017
The present study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm's decision to hire contract workers. We use information from a specially commissioned survey of manufacturing firms undertaken in 2014 by ICRIER, as part of a World Bank funded project 'Jobs and Development: Creating...
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Voice at work
Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021
(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …
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Unionisation and Firm Performance in China's Manufacturing Industries
Anwar, Sajid - 2015
This paper examines the link between unionisation and firm performance in China's manufacturing industries. The empirical results suggest that unionisation has not greatly benefitted workers in China's textile industry but it has contributed to much larger increase in average wages in both...
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What Explains the Decline of the U.S. Labor Share of Income? An Analysis of State and Industry Level Data
Abdih, Yasser - 2017
The U.S. labor share of income has been on a secular downward trajectory since thebeginning of the new millennium. Using data that are disaggregated across both state andindustry, we show the decline in the labor share is broad-based but the extent of the fallvaries greatly. Exploiting a new...
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The distribution of firm size in India : what can survey data tell us?
Hasan, Rana; Jandoc, Karl Robert L. - 2010
We use establishment-level data from Indian manufacturing to describe the distribution of firm size in terms of employment, and discuss implications for public policy. A unique feature of our analysis is the use of nationally representative establishment-level data from both the registered...
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Rent sharing, wage floors, and development
Budlender, Joshua; Bassier, Ihsaan - 2023
power, lower productivity, and binding wage floors will absorb these positive revenue productivity shocks as excess profits …. We first explain how firm wage-setting behaviour changes at a productivity threshold directly related to the wage floor … estimated separately by firm revenue productivity bins. As predicted by the theory, we find that firms below the threshold …
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Do minimum wages affect employment? : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Nguyen, Ha; Pabon, Laura; Wang, … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 17, pp. 1-35
This paper investigates the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing firms between 1993 and 2006. It shows that within firms, the employment effects of minimum wage hikes is negative. It finds significant, negative employment effects of minimum wages among...
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Effects of the Number of Industrial Enterprises, Values of Input and Output, and Regional Minimum Wage on Labor Demand in Indonesia : Empirical Study on Micro Industrial Enterprises
Nababan, Tongam Sihol - 2017
This study aims to (1) identify the effects of the number of industrial enterprises, values of input and output, and Regional Minimum Wage (RMW) on the labor demand in Indonesia, particularly in micro industrial enterprises; and (2) detect the elasticities of these variables toward the labor...
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Wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - 2015
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in …
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The Impact of Minimum Wage Policy on Small Medium Enterprises' Productivity in the Manufacturing Sector
Leng Yean, Ung - 2017
and improving productivity.Methodology/Technique - Data were collected through questionnaire distribution and literature … the need to increase labour productivity, lower operational costs and change organizational methods.Novelty - The …
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