distribution of jobs across households. A higher value of the uneven job distribution indices implies that there are relatively … large numbers of households with multiple employed people and households with no employed people. Similarly, poor … distribution across households worsens aggregated poverty at the state level. Similarly, good-quality jobs help households escape …

poverty, suggesting the creation of a group of urban households excluded from any labour market, and trapped in indigence …

also on their households and wages. I develop a framework to estimate household labour income and I use it to construct …

. When households are close to the borrowing constraint, their occupational choices are distorted and they optimally choose … to work in the routine occupations for longer than households who have accumulated a buffer stock of savings. I show that … relevant, as about 34% of the households working in routine occupations live hand-to-mouth …