Minimum wage policy is regarded as an essential policy tool for improving the welfare of low-paid workers and reducing working poverty and inequality within the labour market. The Government of India recently undertook reforms in the country's wage policy and enacted the Code on Wages in August...

The Government of India is leveraging wage policy as a part of overall fiscal policy actions to protect the income of the informal and migrant workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown measures. The statutory minimum wages through its redistributive mechanism and MGNREGS...

The English version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=3686212" http://ssrn.com/abstract=3686212.Spanish Abstract: En tiempos del COVID-19, cuando el 'distanciamiento social' surge como una nueva normalidad, conocer los trabajos que se pueden realizar desde casa, es sin...

This paper estimates the job and wage losses of workers, using the lens of informality, due to lockdown measures undertaken by the Government of India to tackle the spread of COVID-19. It focuses on the first two lockdowns when containment measures in India were most stringent in the world. We...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3628761Spanish Abstract: El presente estudio estima el shock de oferta de primer orden, producto de la reducción de la oferta de trabajo asociada con las medidas de contención y distanciamiento social tomadas por el...