Labour Market Rigidities in India

Amir Ullah Khan
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Amir Ullah Khan: Director and Dean at the Bangalore Management Academy and an Adjunct Professor of Business and Law at the Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, Email: amir@bmdindia.com

Review of Market Integration, 2009, vol. 1, issue 3, 339-374

Abstract: Labour market efficiency is often a function of the degree to which labour is mobile and the market flexible. In India labour markets are integrated but continue to be rigid on account of the legal system that has traditionally viewed labour markets as skewed in favour of employers. Labour dispute resolution, trade union laws, minimum wage stipulations and other laws have ensured that labour often is over protected. This article looks at how existing labour law plays its part in making labour markets less than efficient.

Keywords: Labour law; minimum wages; labour market rigidities; recruitment; retrenchment; dispute resolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/097492921000100304

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