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 …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with …In a number of countries, youth unemployment is a pressing economic and political concern. In India, 54 percent of the … participation in and the impact of one of these programs (DDUJKY) located in rural Bihar, one of India's poorest states. The …

farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India which was introduced by the Indian National Congress (INC). Using longitudinal data … on funds sanctioned and election results from three rounds of elections in Rajasthan, a state in India, we find an …

countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of …. In contrast, there is little evidence for negative private employment effects …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of … in adult life, including labour force participation, nature of employment, and earnings. Thus our findings reveal how …

vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …