The paper studies regional difference in employment, unemployment and income in Andhra Pradesh, in the backdrop of demand for separate state of Telangana. The empirical results are based on unit survey data of rural households of Andhra Pradesh based on employment and unemployment surveys...

The paper examines the determinants of workforce structure with respect to status and sector. It develops multinomial regression by using National Sample Survey Organisations (NSSO) household survey data to analyse factors that influence types of employment of workers in rural Andhra Pradesh....

The paper studies regional difference in employment, unemployment and income in Andhra Pradesh, in the backdrop of demand for separate state of Telangana. The empirical results are based on unit survey data of rural households of Andhra Pradesh based on employment and unemployment surveys...

In this paper, labour market behaviour in rural India is examined, with the objectives of assessing the structure of the work status among sample individuals and of testing segmented labour market theory. Simple regression techniques and an estimated modified Mincer equation to determine...

In India, agriculture contributes to 67.9% of employment but it only contributes to 38.34% of rural GDP and about 12% to Indias GDP. It shows that even though structural transformation in GDP taken place rapidly, transformation in employment is very slow especially in rural areas. Keeping this,...

Given the slow structural transformation of employment in rural areas in India, this paper tries to probe into the structural transformation in semi-arid tropics of India, by using high frequency longitudinal panel data from 1975 to 2010. The results show that, up to early 1980s, structural...