Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … minority of India's women. So despite India's economic boom, it appears that for all but the very well educated, labor market …

India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … study examines the sectoral and economic composition of SEZ activities in India. It finds that labour intensive, skill … intensive and technology intensive firms co exist in India's zones and, therefore argues that all the three effects described …

(NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such program in India. This paper assesses causal impacts (Intent-to-Treat) of NREGA …

-level employment and wages of skilled and unskilled workers of India's manu- facturing sector, based on the size of the plant. I find … FDI needs to be achieved. The findings are important especially in the context of India's recent Make-in-India campaign … strives to increase India's productive capacity in order to generate positive employment effects, and especially increase the …