The Automobile sector is an important pillar of the Indian Economy. Being a major contributor to GDP, and a big job creator facing a slowdown, the crisis in the Indian automobile sector has far-fetching consequences. This research study examines the reason leading to the decline in automobile...

Employability is considered to be the world's problem now a days. In India the same problem is viewed in a different perspective, being a labor intensive country, where competent employees are available abundantly at a cheaper price, world can make use of the Indian labor market. This research...

This article considers welfare reform's impact in rural America. Professor Pruitt asserts that federal welfare reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), reflects an urban political agenda that failed to consider rural realities. Based on her...

Purpose - This paper aims to tackle an important question related to women's economic empowerment in highly patriarchal societies like Egypt. The paper discusses individual, household, wealth and location factors determining women empowerment, as measured by two dimensions: decision-making power...

Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of permanent workers. This process has led to increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the...

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public-works based rural livelihood programme in the world. One of the important policy objectives of the Scheme is to curb rural out-migration by guaranteeing demand-driven employment opportunities for...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of India imposed production restrictions on various sectors of the economy. Prima facia there is reason to believe that the cost of the quantity constraints may be greater than their simple sum. This is because quantity constraints percolate...

This article investigates the link between trade liberalization and the job matching process in India. The aggregate matching function in India is estimated by incorporating the trade openness as a proxy for trade liberalization. The monthly data are drawn from Employment Exchange in India, the...

Functioning of the city: "A human habitat consists of a community which is characterized by a population territorially organized where individual units are living together in a relationship of mutual interdependence". The complexity that has been earlier referred to, responds to the diverse...