Tag Search: “jobs”
Trade, internal migration, and human capital: Who gained from India’s IT boom?
The Indian economy experienced trade expansion and an IT boom during 1993-2004. How did the spectacular growth in a high skill-intensive sector – concentrated in a few big cities – affect inequality a...
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Devaki Ghose
14 March, 2022
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Budget 2022-23 and outlook for the Indian economy
Several commentators have lauded the recently presented Budget 2022-23 as a ‘growth budget’, on account of the large allocations made for capital expenditure on public infrastructure. On the other han...
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Ashok Kotwal
Pronab Sen
03 March, 2022
- Podcasts
Budget 2022-23 and outlook for the Indian economy
Several commentators have lauded the recently presented Budget 2022-23 as a ‘growth budget’, on account of the large allocations made for capital expenditure on public infrastructure. On the other han...
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Ashok Kotwal
Pronab Sen
03 March, 2022
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Budget 2022-23: The elephants and the ostrich
Analysing India’s 2022-23 Union Budget, Neeraj Hatekar contends that MNREGA, the rural job guarantee programme that has not received additional funding vis-à-vis 2021-22 budget estimates, should be le...
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Neeraj Hatekar
09 February, 2022
- Perspectives
Estimating changes in India’s workforce during 2011-2018
Prior to the 2017-18 Periodic Labour Force Survey, there was paucity of official, labour-market data since the last nationally representative survey was from 2011, and other surveys in the intervening...
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Amit Basole
Paaritosh Nath
17 December, 2021
- Perspectives
MNREGA funds allocation: Honouring the work-on-demand guarantee
The Centre has sought an additional Rs. 25,000 crore as funding for MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Based on simple calculations using official data, Ashwini Kulkarni ...
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Ashwini Kulkarni
15 December, 2021
- Perspectives
Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Intra-marital hierarchies and perceptions about working mothers
Women in India spend thrice as much time doing unpaid domestic work compared to the men in their household, and twice as much time on care-giving activities for children and dependent adults. Based on...
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Shubhangi Karia
Tanvi Mehta
09 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Women’s mobility in north India
Although India has experienced structural and social changes that promote gender equality in many respects, women’s physical mobility remains very low. Analysing primary data from three urban clusters...
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Vidisha Mehta
Harish Sai
08 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Do working women enjoy more agency?
Women’s limited work participation in India is not only of economic significance, but also has ramifications for their well-being and societal status. Based on a household survey in four north Indian ...
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Megan Maxwell
Milan Vaishnav
07 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Why is female labour force participation so low in India?
India’s low female labour force participation is a complex social phenomenon, resulting from – among other things – patriarchal norms, rural-urban transitions, and a mismatch of supply and demand fact...
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Deepaboli Chatterjee
Neelanjan Sircar
06 December, 2021
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India
Urbanisation in India is reshaping established social and economic patterns of behaviour, in ways that scholars are yet to fully comprehend. India’s rapid urbanisation invites several pressing questio...
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Devesh Kapur
Neelanjan Sircar
Milan Vaishnav
06 December, 2021
- Symposium
Covid-19: Impact on migrant workers in Bihar
The nationwide lockdown – imposed in March 2020 to contain the spread of Covid-19 – left large sections of migrant workers in a precarious position, with livelihoods lost, and no means of public trans...
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Gaurav Datt
Swati Dutta
Sunil Kumar Mishra
27 October, 2021
- Notes from the Field