 Political Federalism and Innovation: Are de jure Labor Regulations Absolute?Asian Journal of Law and Economics, 2017, vol. 8, issue 3, 15 Abstract: The importance of labour regulation in influencing innovative activity has attracted significant attention in the literature. What has not been adequately explored is the role played by different categories of such laws. In this context, employing state-level data for India during 1992–2010, we investigate how political federalism interacts with labour laws to influence innovative activity. Our findings suggest that although certain labour laws foster innovation, its complementarities with political federalism end up dampening innovation. These results call into question the widely held view of the innovation-enhancing effects of labour laws and suggest that the hitherto unaddressed political channel might have an important role to play in this regard. Keywords: innovation; dispute resolution; employment protection; India (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:ajlecn:v:8:y:2017:i:3:p:15:n:1 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Asian Journal of Law and Economics is currently edited by Noriyuki Yanagawa More articles in Asian Journal of Law and Economics from De Gruyter |
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