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 …

the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable …, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions which effectively use changes in these indicators over time within … most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at …

Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I …

The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that … economy characterized by lean season involuntary unemployment as a consequence of tied-labor contracts. Specifically, we … compensation to public work employees consistent with the objectives of (i) productive efficiency in agriculture and (ii) welfare …

Using updated data, we analyze the long-run effects of two British colonial institutions established in India. Iyer …