Minimum wage policy is regarded as an essential policy tool for improving the welfare of low-paid workers, reducing working poverty and inequality within the labour market. The Government of India recently undertook reform in the country's wage policy and enacted the Code on Wages in August...

Minimum wage policy is regarded as an essential policy tool for improving the welfare of low-paid workers and reducing working poverty and inequality within the labour market. The Government of India recently undertook reforms in the country's wage policy and enacted the Code on Wages in August...

The English version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3686212" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3686212.Spanish Abstract: En tiempos del COVID-19, cuando el 'distanciamiento social' surge como una nueva normalidad, conocer los trabajos que se pueden realizar desde casa, es sin...

This paper estimates the job and wage losses of workers, using the lens of informality, due to lockdown measures undertaken by the Government of India to tackle the spread of COVID-19. It focuses on the first two lockdowns when containment measures in India were most stringent in the world. We...