The Role of Labor Market Flexibility in the Job Matching Process in India: An Analysis of the Matching Function Using State-Level Panel Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 934-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
State Level ◽  
Matching Function ◽  
Job Matching ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility

scholarly journals Growth effect of foreign direct investment: The role of labor market flexibility

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Nurnaddia Nordin ◽  
Nurhaiza Nordin ◽  
Murni Yunus Mawar ◽  
Norzalina Norzalina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Growth Effect ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility

scholarly journals The Relational Nature of Employment Dualization: Evidence from Subcontracting Establishments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Ochsenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
College Education ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
Bargaining Position ◽  
Labor Market Flexibility ◽  
Works Council ◽  
Positive Effect

Scholars argue that the dual path to labor market flexibility protects the privileges of core workers at the expense of employees relegated to a peripheral employment sector. Yet whether core workers indeed benefit from workforce segmentation remains disputed. To scrutinize this question, I study how the wages of core workers with less than college education respond when their employer shifts employment out to subcontractors, using linked employer-employee panel data from Germany. Empirically, I find the effect of subcontracting on average to be either positive or neutral, but not negative. The presence and strength of the positive effect depends, first, on whether the type of subcontracting affords core workers with codetermination rights, second, on whether core workers are represented by a works council to exercise these rights, and, third, on whether these rights are exercised in a context that augments the bargaining position of core workers by rendering conflictual labor relations costly to the employer.

Economic impact of floods in the Indian states

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yashobanta Parida
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Central Government ◽  
State Level ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Political Alignment ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe examine the impact of economic development and the role of political alignment on the fatalities and damages due to floods using state-level panel data for 19 Indian states over the period 1980–2011. The empirical results confirm that economic development leads to a decline in flood fatalities and damages due to floods across Indian states. This study also examines the role of politics in the prevention of flood fatalities. We find that both state election years and political alignment influence the extent of flood fatalities. The results suggest that not only economic development but also healthy political coordination between the central government and the states is essential to mitigate the impact of floods.

Switch in Livelihood Strategies and Social Capital Have a Role to Play in Deciding Rural Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis from Eastern India

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-94
Author(s):  
Sunil Khosla ◽  
Pradyot Ranjan Jena
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
State Level ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Poverty Dynamics ◽  
Eastern India

Rural households continuously move into and out of poverty due to various factors; and in response to this phenomenon, these rural households adopt several strategies. The purpose of the present paper was to examine the role of livelihood diversification and social capital in the movement of these households into and out of poverty in Eastern rural India. The present study classified households into four poverty groups (called poverty dynamics) based on the panel data gathered from 1353 rural households between 2004–2005 and 2011–2012. The study used the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) and the multinomial logit model (MLM) to examine the poverty outcome between 2004–2005 and 2011–2012. As per the data collected, at the state level, 25.26% of households were chronic poor and 37.04% of households ascended out of poverty, while 8.20% of households descended into poverty between 2004–2005 and 2011–2012. Further, it was found out from the SLA that there is a positive relationship between the phenomena of non-farm activities and escaping poverty. The result from the MLM shows that social capital in the form of group membership in different saving schemes and social groups helps to ascend out of poverty.

Trade Liberalization and the Aggregate Matching Function in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Matching Function ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Job Matching ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Matching Process ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
Matching Efficiency ◽  
New Hires

This paper investigates the link between trade liberalization and the job-matching process in India by estimating an aggregate matching function by incorporating trade openness as a proxy for trade liberalization. Monthly data are drawn from the National Employment Service's Employment Exchange, India's only public employment service. The results show that trade liberalization leads to a decline in the number of new hires. This implies the exacerbation of matching efficiency, described by an outward shift of the Beveridge curve. This finding is in accordance with a widely held public view that trade liberalization increases unemployment. Therefore, the Indian government should continue carrying out structural reforms for the Indian economy to deal with the inefficiencies in the labor market due to external liberalization.

scholarly journals TRANSICIÓN Y PERSISTENCIA EN EL CICLO FORMAL-INFORMAL EN MÉXICO

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Jaime J. Escobedo González ◽  
◽  
Jorge O. Moreno Treviño
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Multinomial Logit ◽  
Synthetic Dataset ◽  
Employment Survey

This paper analyzes the role of human capital in the formal-informal transition of workers in Mexico. We create a dynamic pooled aligned panel of 44 quarters, using a series of quarterly panel data that follows each individual for 5 consecutive quarters, using the Mexican Employment Survey. Using this synthetic dataset we estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model and classify potential working force people in four labor states: formal, informal, unemployed, and outside the labor market. Our results show that: 1) persistence is greater in informality vs. formality, and 2) worker’s human capital plays an important role in formal-informal transitions. In particular, worker’s education not only increases the probability of being formal but also increases the probability of entering and/or remaining into formality.

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