wage informal employment, and scarcity of decent regular wage employment. The collection of essays discuss the labour … that skill development, inclusion of women, agricultural employment and social security need special focus. The articles … and employment. …

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 … include low productivity, price instability and stagnation leading to indebtedness. Under the typical neoclassical tradition …

about by liberalization and globalization of the economy. It assesses the structural changes in terms of employment of …, returns to scale and productivity. …

social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change. The setting is a tea plantation in India. The activity …

The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course … of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the …-stage wages. Indian household panel data describing early-season migration and district-level planting- and harvest-stage wages …

technology on wages and employment in Indian organised manufacturing industries in the post reforms period [WP No. 153] …