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Covid-19: How well are government schemes supporting Bihar’s vulnerable populations?
The immediate adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown was visibly greater for migrant workers and their households, whose ability to access government schemes in their villages...
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Advaita Rajendra
Ankur Sarin
Karan Singhal
18 March, 2021
- Notes from the Field
DUET re-examined
In September 2020, Jean Drèze’s proposal for an urban work programme called DUET (Decentralised Urban Employment and Training) was presented on I4I. This was followed by an extensive symposium in whic...
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Jean Drèze
09 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Gendered breadwinner norms and work decisions
The male breadwinner norm – the idea that a man must earn more than his wife – can potentially impact labour-market outcomes of married women. Using nationally representative data from India for the p...
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Sakshi Gupta
08 March, 2021
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Did MNREGA cushion job losses during the pandemic?
The 2021-22 Budget allocation for MNREGA is 34% lower than the revised estimates for the programme in 2020-21. Analysing official MNREGA data, this article suggests that districts that have historical...
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Farzana Afridi
Kanika Mahajan
Nikita Sangwan
11 February, 2021
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Budget 2021-22: A gender lens
Examining the 2021-22 union budget through a gender lens, Nalini Gulati discusses what the budget does – and does not do – for women in the Indian economy, particularly with respect to the digital pus...
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Nalini Gulati
02 February, 2021
- Perspectives
Import competition, formalisation, and role of contract workers
Given the recent expansion in the participation of developing countries in global trade, it is important to understand the role of trade in the composition of employment in these countries. Analysing ...
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Pavel Chakraborty
Rahul Singh
Vidhya Soundararajan
27 January, 2021
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Employment entry and exit by women in India
While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – that...
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Soham Sahoo
Sudipa Sarkar
19 January, 2021
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Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice
Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnatak...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu
Smit Gade
Teresa Molina
Anant Nyshadham
11 January, 2021
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Welfare through workfare? Lessons from the early days of MNREGA
Workfare programmes are an old tool to provide necessary income support to the poorest in times of recessions, droughts, and now pandemics. Yet, these are often questioned for their effectiveness. As ...
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Stefan Klonner
Christian Oldiges
16 December, 2020
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Does workfare work? MNREGA during Covid-19
In the wake of the large-scale return of migrant workers from cities to rural areas on account of the Covid-19 lockdowns and associated job losses, it was apparent that MNREGA would need to play a cru...
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Sudha Narayanan
Christian Oldiges
Shree Saha
01 December, 2020
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DUET: Creating a resilient ecosystem for vulnerable populations
Providing their perspective on Drèze’s DUET proposal for an urban work programme, the authors contend that its objective should not just be financial support but the creation of a wider ecosystem that...
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Ishu Gupta
Advaita Rajendra
Ankur Sarin
10 November, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19 lockdown and migrant workers: Survey of vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand
The nationwide lockdown in India hit migrant workers particularly hard and once travel restrictions were lifted, 11 million interstate migrants returned home. In this note, the authors present key fin...
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Bhaskar Chakravorty
Clément Imbert
Maximilian Lohnert
Poonam Panda
05 November, 2020
- Notes from the Field