India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public-works based rural … guaranteeing demand-driven employment opportunities for 100 days in a year in rural areas. This paper uses a large sample survey …

In this paper attempt has been made to understand the processes of growth in rural non-farm employment based on the … 2011-12 employment and unemployment round of the National Sample Survey Office. The rural non-farm sector has undergone … continuous decline in the share of self and regular employment. On the basis of multivariate analyses at two levels, this study …

youth employment, the Government of India has launched a number of skills training programs. This paper deals with … poor youth. Initially, the program leads to a 29 percentage point increase in the employment rate of the trained graduates …. However, two to six months after the training, the employment effect of the program drops to zero. A third of the placed …