Is pro-labor law pro-women? Evidence from India

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Is pro-labor law pro-women? Evidence from India
Original language description
I study the effects of state-level differences in labor regulation on labor market outcomes of women in India. Using a representative sample of urban households from 2005, I find that labor regulation has a large negative effect on women?s economic activity, mainly employment. My estimates suggest that a one standard deviation increase in the labor regulation measure decreases the probability of a woman being economically active by 3% to 4%?the implied decrease in female labor force is between 15% and 18%. The effects on men?s participation are around zero. I do not find labor regulation to have a significant effect on male wages or on the gender wage gap. Finally, labor regulation is associated with women having less say at home and a lower sex ratio.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP402%2F12%2F2172" target="_blank" >GAP402/12/2172: Exploiting policy interventions in the Czech Republic to answer general questions about criminal deterrence</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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