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. Mobility patterns among workers are found to differ significantly along the lines of gender, caste, education, wealth, and …The present study contributes to the limited literature on labor mobility in India using the India Human Development … logistic regression, and wage regressions for this study. The results show significant mobility across sectors in the economy …
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-level minimum wages. Using the 2004-05 Employment-Unemployment Survey along with the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we estimate that … casual workers. We also show that an extended minimum wage could substantially reduce inequality, poverty and the gender pay …
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. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …
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. The present paper examines the veracity of this by examining the trends in employment and earnings in this sector over the … nineties and analysing the factors affecting them. Most of the employment expansion has been in the unorganised sector where … wages have stagnated. Though real wages in the factories have declined employment therein has not increased. Interestingly …
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on continuous (steady) decline and rural employment base has accordingly witnessed a modest degree of diversification. In … this paper it has been attempted to review the determinants of rural non-farm employment i.e. the factors determining the … into more productive sectors. These statistics reveal that the country is facing huge challenges of productive employment …
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among … urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post … did not experience any significant impact on employment post pandemic, as reported by their husbands. Second, we document …
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effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An … investigation into the changes in employment shares reveals that female workers suffer less of a decline in routine cognitive jobs …
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juxtaposition of water infrastructure and gender differences at the household level. We use spatiotemporal data from the largest … piped drinking water (IPDW) on employment and earnings by gender, the self-reported health of women, the prevalence of … gender disaggregated human development survey in India (2005-2012) and carry out econometric analyses using individual fixed …
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The study evaluates the extent, impact and determinants of labour migration in Bihar. Data were collected in 2011 from four hundred households (200 migrants and 200 non-migrants) four villages, each of rainfed ecosystem (Madhubani district) and partially irrigated ecosystem (East Champaran...
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