India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …. This paper exploits the institutional features of a federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its causal impact … that a 1-percentage point increase in the employment quota for Scheduled Castes increases the likelihood of obtaining a …

Individual-level employment data have a wide range of applications. They are used to monitor labor markets and the … design issues behind the collection of individual-level employment data in nationally representative household surveys and … captured in the reviewed surveys. Third, it takes stock of current approaches to collect employment data and discusses critical …