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Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I … agricultural employment relative to non-farm employment being responsible for this gap. These results are consistent with a lack of … local non-farm employment opportunities interacting with barriers to labor mobility for women but not men. …
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, agricultural feminization and female autonomy in farming. The study uses unit level data from the India Human Development Survey …
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The multi-dimensional role of women in agriculture cannot be denied as they contribute in every agricultural operation from sowing to harvesting of crops and are also active in allied sectors. Participation of women in total workforce was assessed 27.44 per cent as against 72.56 per cent by male...
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approaches. According to the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC), there were 244.9 million households in India of which 179 …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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identity norms. We also find that the increase in overall (but gender-differentiated) off-farm employment induced by the land … negative effects of gender-differentiated off-farm employment on the relative bargaining power of females relative to males …-farm employment would not only limit the potential of the reform benefit but also result in the reduced bargaining power of females …
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