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 …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …

distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. The … classification of such items was done by eliciting responses to a survey in India. We match the results of our survey with nationally … result of the status signaling nature of such consumption items. -- households ; consumption ; India …

Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …