watchers that there is at last a visible structural shift in employment. Yet, it needs to be recognized that this shift has …

The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of â …€˜jobless growth’. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in agriculture sector that …, this trend would have predicted further contraction of employment in the rural economy. However, further probing reveals …

countries, namely; Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, concludes that on return, the employment status of REMs … were in general worse off than in their host country with high share of casualisation, self employment and unemployment in … the crisis year and a decline in their average monthly earnings. The analysis suggests that those who found employment on …

This paper makes an attempt to evaluate the employment and wage effects of FDI in Indian manufacturing. The findings … suggest that foreign firms do not have any adverse effects on the manufacturing employment in India as compared to their …