Showing 1 - 10 of 53
Expansion of earning opportunities and increment in earning levels are dual objectives of policymakers in developing countries. The structural adjustment programme in India tried to ensure both through higher growth targets, and manufacturing sector has seen the most sweeping changes. It is now...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260234
State interventions into Labour policies in India are directed towards ensuring both job security and income security. In this paper we look at likely impact of such policies. The laws are found to serve the organised workers primarily while large masses of unorganised workers are without any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836599
Earning differentials in labour market leads to multidimensional aspects of deprivation and disadvantage. While the ‘deprived’ are excluded from participation in society, such exclusion may also cause deprivation. In economic terms, disparity in labour markets has far-reaching consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837066
Tertiarisation of labour market has globally been associated with economic progress. But in developing countries, labour market deformities may push people into service economy out of distress also. This paper examines the tertiarisation process in Indian labour market to bring out the reasons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616990
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis," whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084645
on the contribution of youth to national product. India at present suffers from remarkably high educated unemployment and … skill. Huge youth unemployment, especially educated unemployment is the surest way to social tension, unrest, and unlawful … formation and unemployment among youth in India, focusing specially on educated unemployment. We find that current skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259645
This paper views movements in unemployment as the result of the interaction between: (a) lags in labour market … decisions; and (b) labour market shocks with temporary and permanent components. Two features of unemployment dynamics are … examined: (i) `unemployment persistence', arising when temporary shocks have persistent effects on unemployment; and (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791454
The paper surveys unemployment policies for advanced market economies and evaluates them by examining the predictions … of the underlying macroeconomic theories. The basic idea is that, for the most part, different unemployment policy … - on the ability of these theories to predict some salient stylized facts about unemployment behaviour. The paper considers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136538
This paper evaluates two theories of unemployment: the natural rate theory (whereby unemployment is depicted as … fluctuating around a reasonably stable natural rate) and the chain reaction theory (which views movements in unemployment as the … unemployment not only in the short run, but in the long run as well. The reason is that, in the presence of growing exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504680
seems to be depressing the labour market. Unemployment is rising, both absolutely and as proportion of labour force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616915