Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of scheduled caste (SC) and …

administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship … employment options. Empirical evidence based on primary data lends support to our key theoretical prediction that wage payment …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why … there is a tendency for women to withdraw from the labor force to attend to domestic duties (income effect), that employment … and partly due to an education effect. We find no evidence of changes in employment opportunities or of social and …

-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find …'s labour force participation is mostly in flexible employment, e.g. self-employment and agricultural and non-agricultural wage … employment, and is particularly evident for poorer households. …

Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in … India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers … in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting regional variation in changes in minimum wages over time in …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that …