ILO has predicted that economic disruptions caused by the pandemic have the potential to render the already vulnerable informal workers into deeper levels of poverty and deprivation. Despite this, there has been little to no urgency by state actors to extend protection and security to these...

This paper introduces a labor force participation choice into a labor market matching model embedded in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up with production and savings. The participation choice is modelled as a tradeoff between forgoing the expected benefits of being search active...

The components of small scale and cottage industries and the production of different articles produced in Barasat and Barrackpore sub-divisions of North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal are worldwide famous for the produced Cottage products and at the same time these are the means of...