Factors Influencing Indian Manufacturing Firms’ Decision to Hire Contract Labour

Jaivir Singh (), Deb Kusum Das (), Homagni Choudhury, Prateek Kukreja and Abhishek Kumar

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Abstract: The study attempts to investigate the factors affecting a firm’s decision to hire contract workers. The 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 Multi-Disciplinary Solutions’. The survey covered 500 firms in five states, namely Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat and spread across five major industries; viz. Auto Components, Electronics and Electrical Equipment, Leather Products, Textile and Garments and Food Processing. The estimation is carried out using a logit model, where the firm’s decision, whether or not to hire a contract worker is assumed to be a binary dependent variable.

Keywords: Contract worker; labor regulations; manufacturing survey data; employment; contract workers; manufacturing; world bank; Multi-Disciplinary Solutions; jobs; development; Auto Components; Electronics; Electrical Equipment; Leather Products; Textile; garments; food processing; logit model; binary dependent variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08
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