The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘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 …

Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …

in consumption expenditure across households with and without a household member who is a short-migrant. [IGIDR WP-2014-009]. …

This report investigates how more and better jobs can be created in South Asia. It does so for two reasons. First, this … several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor … productivity. Second, creating more productive jobs—with jobs defined to include all wage work and self employment— is the most …

employment in this sector is examined. It is found that there are heterogeneities in the performance of the manufacturing sector …

, repatriation and rehabilitation of trafficked and migrant child labour. Comments are invited by the Ministry and may be sent to …