India has the world's biggest and arguably most aggressive employment-based affirmative action policy for minorities …. This paper exploits the institutional features of a federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its causal impact … that a 1-percentage point increase in the employment quota for Scheduled Castes increases the likelihood of obtaining a …

(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …

., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …

stagnant employment creation from 2004-05 onwards. Our analysis suggests that India needs to focus on creating rural non …Mainstream literature attributes the decline in female labour force participation rate (FLFPR) in India between 2004 … labour demand. We find that female employment is highly responsive to local labour demand, but not male employment. The …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 …, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force participation than one might expect. Recent trends in employment and …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … demand side, employment in sectors appropriate for educated women grew less than the supply of educated workers, leading many …

can improve their placement outcomes. The study setting is the vocational training programme DDU-GKY in India. We find …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act … (NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …. -- difference-in-difference ; intent-to-treat ; NREGA ; rural India …