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Rosa Abraham
Rosa Abraham is an economist interested in issues relating to India’s labour market. She teaches at Azim Premji University where she is a part of the School of Arts and Sciences and is involved with the Centre for Sustainable Employment. Her research focuses on informal work and women’s employment, with particular interest in issues at the intersection of labour statistics and women’s work. At the Centre for Sustainable Employment, she has co-authored the Centre's flagship reports, The State of Working India. Her most recent work looks at employment trajectories in the labour market examining the role of the informal sector.
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Marriage and motherhood: Rethinking women’s employment in rural contexts
While “child penalties” for women in the labour market are well-documented in high- and middle-income countries, how the events of marriage and childbirth play out for women in largely informal economies is relatively understudied. Analysing data from rural Rajasthan and Karnataka, this article finds that married women continue to work following the birth of their first child – a marker of necessity-driven participation in low-paying informal jobs.
Pandemic as a lens: Identifying and addressing livelihood vulnerabilities
Based on the findings from a phone survey of around 5,000 Indian workers, the authors explore the impact of the Covid-19 economic lockdown on two forms of livelihood vulnerabilities: employment insecurity and food insecurity. They argue that the policy response needs to go beyond addressing the immediate consequences of this specific shock; this juncture posits the need for structural reforms that seek to address and fill these gaps concretely rather than suturing temporarily.
Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey
To improve the credibility of survey data, several monitoring tools are used by researchers – such as ‘paradata’, which have gained prominence with the growth of computer-aided interviewing. In this post, Goel et al. discuss how paradata were used in the ‘India Working Survey’ conducted in the states of Karnataka and Rajasthan in 2020, to streamline enumerator practices and enhance data quality.