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 …

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 …

the extent of division in the urban and rural educational institutions on a variety of aspects concerning the employment …

We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …