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Getting India's women into the workforce: Time for a smart approach
In this article, Rohini Pande, the Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, contends that raising India’s stubbornly low rate of female labour force participation will req...
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Rohini Pande
10 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Women and work in Asia: Insights for India's low female labour force participation
In this article, Sher Singh Verick, Deputy Director, ILO’s Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, shows how India compares with other countries in Asia as well as with other de...
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Sher Singh Verick
08 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Declining female labour force participation in rural India: The demand side
National Sample Survey data shows a decline in rural women’s workforce participation between 2004-05 and 2011-12. Rising rural incomes and women’s education over the same period have been taken as ev...
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Sonalde Desai
07 March, 2017
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Declining female labour force participation in rural India: The supply side
Analysis of National Sample Survey data shows that low rates of female labour force participation in India are concentrated among married women in rural areas. This column suggests that this is partl...
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Farzana Afridi
Taryn Dinkelman
Kanika Mahajan
05 March, 2017
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Women and work in India
Female labour force participation in India has been low and stagnant over the past few decades. I4I Editor Farzana Afridi is hosting an e-symposium to examine research that explores the reasons for t...
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Farzana Afridi
03 March, 2017
- Symposium
What explains the low and stagnating female labour force participation in India?
In this article, Stephan Klasen gives an overview of the existing evidence on the supply- and demand-side drivers of female labour force participation in India.
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Stephan Klasen
03 March, 2017
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What explains the decline in female labour force participation in India?
It is often argued that female labour force participation is declining in India due to rising incomes that allow more women to stay at home, which is the preferred household choice in a predominantly...
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Urmila Chatterjee
Rinku Murgai
Martin Rama
13 January, 2017
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Women and work in rural India
In contrast to the global average of 48%, only 32.6% of the half-a-billion working-age women in India report to be working. It is puzzling that the rapid fertility transition, broad increases in femal...
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Farzana Afridi
Taryn Dinkelman
31 December, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Is the structure of Indian manufacturing geared towards job creation?
Government of India has envisaged adding 100 million jobs in manufacturing by 2022. This column finds that the structure of the country’s manufacturing sector is misaligned with the objective of job ...
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Sharmila Kantha
05 December, 2016
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Minimum wage legislation for domestic workers: Does it work?
Between 2005 and 2009, for the first time, seven Indian states notified minimum wages for domestic workers. This column evaluates the impact of the legislation in terms of real wages and employment op...
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Rohan Gudibande
Arun Jacob
28 November, 2016
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Insights from long-term studies of Indian villages
Much of our knowledge of change in rural areas depends on longitudinal village studies. Drawing upon a number of village studies carried out over the years in India, this column provides a broad pict...
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Himanshu .
Praveen K. Jha
Gerry Rodgers
23 September, 2016
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The missing men
Studies on skewed sex ratios in India typically focus on female deficits attributed to factors such as gender discrimination. This column finds that regions covering over 200 million people in India ...
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Chinmay Tumbe
01 September, 2016
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