This paper attempts to have an examination of the Rural Non -Farm Employment situation in India and Thailand over the … last three decades. The important findings of this study are: (a) Both in India and Thailand, there has been employment … variation with regard to the incidence of rural non-farm employment in both Thailand and India. (c) There is a gender bias with …

favourably with non farm employment avenues. This would be reflected in the earnings in farm and non-farm jobs and overall …

proportion of workers in an employment relationship. …

Introduction -- Economic history and modern India : redefining the link -- Rural labour and colonialism -- Agricultural … labour : lessons from wage data -- Was there an industrial decline in India in the early nineteenth century? -- Labour …

We examine the labour market impacts of the largest livelihoods programs in the world, India's Deendayal Antyodaya …-help groups (SHGs). We combine administrative data on SHG membership across districts in India with survey micro-data on labour … force and employment outcomes of rural women between 2011 and 2019. Using a generalized difference-in-differences approach …