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

Beyond the research literature and studies, job satisfaction is really considered a need. This issue is addressed on the basis of multifarious aspects of job satisfaction, which covers, salary, healthy growth of an organization, promotional techniques, and implementation of objectives, emotion...

This paper is the first to estimate the magnitude and determinants of a wage differential by disability status in the context of an agrarian labor market through a wage decomposition method. In rural Uttar Pradesh, India, we find evidence of an unexplained wage gap in favor of non-disabled men...

This paper examines certain aspects of employment among women workers in hired labour households, drawing on two surveys of Gokilapuram, a village in south-west Tamil Nadu, India, conducted in 1977 and 1999. The study finds that, first, work participation rates among women were high. Secondly, a...

The current paper connects anxiety about disease contamination to that about cultural contamination and the exclusionary behavior toward ethnic outgroups that it incites. We suggest that when individuals are exposed to disease fears, an epistemic groundwork is laid for construing outgroups as...

Cooperative Social Responsibility (CSR) is the commitment of cooperative business to contribute to sustainable economic development - working with employees, their families, the local community and society at large to improve the quality of life, in ways that are both good for business and good...

India's Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) of 1947 requires firm with more than 100 workers to pay large costs if they shrink their employment. Since the early 2000s, large Indian manufacturing firms have increasingly relied on contract workers who are not subject to the IDA. By 2015, contract...

Prologue: Indian economy is substantially supported by cooperative sector through 500,000 cooperatives, 230 million members, assets worth INR 1.5 billion and presence in every sector of economy. 20th century remained milestone for credit and banking cooperative in Gujarat state. At beginning of...

India's population is quite young - perhaps 35 % of the total population is aged less than 15 years. In the mid-1970s, India was so worried about its explosive population growth. Population growth has slowed from 4 % in the 1960s to about 1.7 % now, fueling hopes of stable growth by the middle...