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Does Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsDoes Services Sector Encourage Migration and Reduce Poverty?
The Indian Journal of Labour EconomicsFinancial Access and Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship and Employment:...
Can expansion of bank branch network reduce gender-gap in economic activity at the village level? To explore this issue, we construct a novel village-level panel data where we observe the financial access of each unbanked village in India defined as its distance to the nearest village/town with bank branch from 1951-2019; and ...Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development...
Shedding light on unnoticed gems in India: Small towns’ development perspective Mitra, Arup and Tripathi, Sabyasachi 2021 Employment, Labour and Informal Sector Though a large portion of India’s urban population is living in large cities, the latest Census period (2001-2011) showed that small towns (population less than 0.1 million) such as Census ...Mobility at the Lower Echelons?Evidence Based on Slum Household Panel Data...
This paper based on the household panel data collected from the slum surveys in the national capital of India notes that the extent of mobility is not uniform across slum households, which in the literature is interpreted as time independent mobility. It tries to identify the determinants of mobility through various econometric ...Reliability of PLFS 2019-20 Data.
Reliability of PLFS 2019-20 Data.City Size Effect on Migration and Poverty: Study of Million-Plus Cities in...
Journal of Urban Planning and Development.Agglomeration Economies and Rural to Urban Migration: A District Level...
Keeping in view the concept of agglomeration economies and the New Economic Geography (NEG) angle, this paper makes an attempt to examine the rural to urban population movement at the district level in India. The findings tend to confirm that higher levels of urbanisation and higher migration rates are not strongly associated. ...Gender and workplace interactions: who is likely to lose?
Workplace interactions have been identified as a valuable source of information and career advancement. This study examines workplace interaction by looking at personal ties of 1744 blue-collar workers in 2 garment manufacturing units in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi, India. Data analysis shows that men have a more expansive set ...Revisiting Reports of the First National Labour Commission & the...
From 1940s onwards and well into the 1970s, labour policy had revolved around principles of tripartism and protection of labour rights; in contrast, from the late 1980s onwards, policy discourse sought to legitmise a shift from protection of labour rights to a deregulation of labour laws. Major shifts in labour policy agendas ...Has Open Innovation Taken Root in India? Evidence from Startups working in...
Open innovation represents a paradigm shift in the technology development process from the advent of the New Millennium. Though evidenced mainly in technology-intensive sectors of developed countries, several ‘erosion factors’ and their interplay catalyse open innovation in relatively traditional sectors of developing countries. The rise of startups with supplementary venture capital industry ...Livelihood Volatility in the Urban Labour Market: Reflections from...
This study aims at capturing the labour market volatility which is conceptualized in terms of the lack of sustainable sources of livelihood round the year. Though we are not able to identify the number of times workers change their jobs, the change in the job status which cannot occur unless the job ...Long-term growth employment relationship in India
Journal of Asian Development ResearchEmployment and TFP Impact of Technologies in the Developing World:...
This study assesses the impact of technology import, input import, foreign ownership of the company and domestic innovation on productivity and employment. For this purpose, we analyze enterprises-level survey data for developing countries across the world. In terms of labour productivity, we noted that it varies inversely with all the three foreign ...COVID lockdown, how people managed and impact of welfare schemes on...
COVID-19 pandemic is likely to accentuate poverty and vulnerability of people at the margin for a number of reasons like lockdown, relocation to native places having no scope for gainful employment, health effects, opening of work with many restrictions, future uncertainty, etc. Following the lockdown in March, the central and state governments ...Vocational Training, Extension, and the Changing Landscape of Agricultural...
Since 2013, India has been introducing new, nationally standardised agricultural vocational training programmes, as part of the broader Skill India initiative of vocational education reform. Yet, given a dearth of existing specialised vocational education centres capable of providing agricultural training, India has been relying on other institutions to implement training at the ...COVID-19 Pandemic and Livelihood Loss: Variations in Unemployment Outcomes...
The paper notes significant variations in the rise in the unemployment rate across regions though the nationwide lockdown was implemented without any discrimination. It explores the reasons of such disparities and notes that migration is an important factor. States with higher rates of migration and urbanisation rate, greater dependency on casual wage ...Services Sector in India: Does It Contribute to Population Movement and...
Based on the cross-sectional data this study examines the role of the services sector in the context of migration from the rural to the urban areas. The dominance of the services sector in the urban setup seems to be working as a pull factor.While industrialisation is seen to encourage migration, the three-equation-recursive ...‘OUR PLACE IN THE FUTURE’: AN EXPLORATION OF CHALAKI AMONG YOUNG...
In the mid 1990’s, Adivasi and Dalit villagers in Kashipur, Southern Odisha, strongly resisted a proposed bauxite mining project through collective struggle. The movement registered many successes but it could not stop the mining project. The struggle waged on for twenty years and eventually declined by 2010. Curiously, as the construction work ...Informal Sector in India: Migration and Poverty Implications
Regional Economics Development Research.Informal Sector in India: Migration and Poverty Implications.
Regional Economics Development Research.