This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways shifted employment from the farm to the nonfarm sector, and that this shift was …, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The …

-financial reform in India provides support for the model?s key predictions …

participation in India; (ii) estimates the extent of the recent decline in female labor force participation; and (iii) examines and …-12. Approximately 53 percent of this drop occurred in rural India, among those ages 15 to 24 years. Factors such as educational … should center on promoting the acceptability of female employment and investing in growing economic sectors that are more …

The recent decline in India?s rural female labor force participation is generally attributed to higher rural incomes in … lower, this alleged income effect does not bode well for the empowerment of women as India develops. This paper argues that … period is the collapse in the number of farming jobs without a parallel emergence of other employment opportunities …

Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated … that draw in female workers have expanded least, so that changes in the sectoral structure of employment alone would have …

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of … absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to …

This paper examines the employment growth of Indian districts from 2000 to 2010 in the manufacturing and services … with low population density. Diversity correlates with disproportionately higher employment growth in the informal sector … and plays a role in generating employment in the district's smaller industries. These findings point toward the "inclusive …

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for more than 99 percent of establishments and 80 percent of employment in …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …