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Priya Ranjan
Priya Ranjan is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California-Irvine. His primary areas of research are international economics and economic growth and development. His more recent work focusses on the implications of globalisation for labour market in the presence of search frictions. He studies, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of globalisation on unemployment and wages of different types of workers.
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Why India needs unemployment insurance
The central government is contemplating reform of labour laws, including those that restrict the ability of firms to fire workers. This column contends that social protection needs to be kept in mind while designing these reforms. It makes a case for publicly-provided unemployment insurance in India and argues that labour laws should protect workers, not jobs.
