This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied … economic factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and …

Using data from the India Human Development Survey, this paper analyses the relationship between child disability and … maternal work participation for India. The authors' findings suggest a significant positive relationship between child … disabilities and their work participation (or weekly work hours). -- Child disability ; maternal work participation ; India …

Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades … affected female labor force participation rates in India. …

propose some probable reasons for this peculiarity in female labour force participation in India. It can be argued from mere … disadvantages in India that is particularly striking in rural areas. Employment structure in India has led to the polarization of …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession …

urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post …

guided by app-based platforms such as Uber, Ola, Urban Company, Zomato, etc. have become fairly common in urban India. These …

policies. More and better jobs for women in India could raise growth by about 2 percentage points a year over time. This … Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of India (http://www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-india.htm). …