Contractualisation in India’s manufacturing industry and the economic reforms of the early 1990s: an analysis based on ASI data

Bir Singh ()
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Bir Singh: University of Delhi

International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, 2022, vol. 16, issue 1, No 7, 135-157

Abstract: Abstract In the post-reforms decade of the 1990s, there are many changes that have dotted India’s socio-economic landscape. Among them declining quality of employment growth has been a very noticeable phenomenon. Contractualisation of the workers in the manufacturing industry indicates it and is a matter of grave policy concern from the perspective of inclusive growth. It has been observed that it has intensified particularly after 1994. This paper attempts to examine whether it was due to policies that were pursued in the pre-reform period (1950–1990) or was it an outcome of the New Economic Policy of 1991 only?

Keywords: Contractualisation; Manufacturing; Labour legislations; Economic Reforms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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