., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …

(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … remains a defining feature with rising informalization in the formal sector. Some outcomes partly reflect India's overall … employment in urban areas. But the ability of the manufacturing sector to engage workers will be constrained by the capital and …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … in the recent literature. However, no study so far has looked into the dynamics of employment in terms of labour force …

Rice and wheat are India's staple cereal crops and there is significant regional variation in the suitability to the … participation rates in both the 2001 and 2011 Censuses of India significantly increase in the district relative suitability to rice … from the 1999-2000 National Sample Survey of Employment and Unemployment reveals that the urban female propensity to work …