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Trends in wages of regular wage employees and casual workers in Indian states
Using the unit record data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys and the Periodic Labour Force Survey of the National Sample Survey Organisation,...
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India’s Missing Female Youth Labour Force: Size, Characteristics and Policy Concern
In the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) convened in October 2023, an amendment to the 19th ICLS resolution of 2013 on...
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Labour Market Flows and Gender Differentials in Urban Unemployment over the Pandemic
Utilising data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), we estimate quarterly changes in urban labour market flows over the period 2018–2022 and...
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Analysing Livelihood Strategies of Landless Manual Labour Households in Rural Bihar: A Study of a North Bihar Village
The paper studies the livelihood strategies of Landless Manual Labour (LML) households of a village named Katkuian, located in the West Champaran...
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Internal Remittances, Household Welfare, Spending Patterns and Labour Supply: A Study from Rural Areas of Hailakhandi District of South Assam
This paper uses primary data collected from 325 rural households in one of the remote but densely populated districts of Assam, India, to evaluate...
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Changes in Labour Force and Employment: Evidence from PLFS Data
The paper analyse and discuss changes in labour force and employment in the recent period using data from periodic labour force surveys of the...
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Unemployment Fluctuations in Urban Labour Market in India
Fluctuations in unemployment rate have been widely studied in developed countries. Lack of panel data, however, limited the scope of such studies in...
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Recent Dynamics of Women Labour Force Participation in India
Using household-level data from Employment–Unemployment Survey (EUS) and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) rounds for India between 2012 and 2019,...
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Gender Gap in the Labour Market of India’s North-east: 2011–2012 to 2019–2020
There is a broad agreement that India’s north-eastern region (NER) is relatively better off in gender-based development parameters. That being so, we...
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Higher-order risk preferences and livelihood choices of farmers from West Bengal, India
This paper investigates the relationship between livelihood diversification strategies and risk preferences, including risk aversion, loss aversion,...
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Effects of COVID-19 on Tea Plantation Workers in India: Issues of Labour Market Institutions
This paper discusses the effects of COVID-19-induced pandemic on tea plantation workers during lockdown phases in India. The tea industry, being a...
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Labour Incomes in India: A Comparison of Two National Household Surveys
The COVID-19 pandemic created a need for high-frequency employment and income data. Policy-makers and researchers of develo** countries typically...
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Agricultural Wages in India: A Critical Review of Data Sources
This paper reviews methodology, survey design, definition, and concepts used in five important data sources available on agricultural wages in India....
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Status of Social Security Provisions in Urban Unorganised Labour Market of Uttar Pradesh: A Field Check
Women workers in the informal economy are in extremely vulnerable situations, with no protection through labour laws, no effective policy measures to...
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Inclusive Development Experiences-I: Impacts on Poverty, Wages and Labour Market
The MGNREGA has promoted inclusive growth and development by generating additional employment in the economy and by transferring cash income to the...
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Dynamics of Agricultural Labour in Small-Farm Economy: Work, Gender and Technologies in Cotton Production in Telangana
This paper explores the nature and dynamics of labour in cotton production in Telangana which emerged as the third largest cotton-producing state in...
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Labour Productivity of Rice Crop in India’s Indo-Gangetic Plains: A Comparison Between Agriculture in Eastern and Western Regions
Green revolution made India’s development unbalanced by building up a high performing agriculture in the highly irrigated western states of Punjab...
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Labour Productivity Dynamics in Indian Agriculture: 2000–2016
This paper attempts to estimate and identify the regional disparity of India’s agricultural labour productivity growth by decomposing it into...
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Outsiders of the Labour Force in Kerala: Demystifying Deterrents of Female Work
Kerala labour market witnesses a pattern of increasing female participation in the category of ‘out-of-labour force’, within which, majority are...
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Dynamics of Urban Labour Market and Informality
Informal sector and informal employment have not only persisted over the years, but have also witnessed growth, particularly during the phase of...
