Tag Search: “jobs”
Competitive jobseekers: When sharing less leaves firms at a loss
For efficient matching of jobs and workers in the labour market, it is essential that information on job postings reaches suitable jobseekers. While social networks play a key role in this regard, com...
- Gaurav Chiplunkar Erin M. Kelley Gregory Lane
- 02 December, 2024
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Policy Roundup: Delhi smog, US immigration, industrial policy
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I (and IGC) content pertaining to Delhi’s seasonal smog problem, anti-pollution and adaptation m...
- Nalini Gulati
- 29 November, 2024
- Perspectives
The agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters
There are various explanations in the literature for the observed productivity gap between agriculture and other sectors, in developing countries. Using Indian data, this article questions the standar...
- Rajveer Jat Bharat Ramaswami
- 20 November, 2024
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Post-Covid informal manufacturing growth: How states fared
Recently released official data show an expansion in informal manufacturing in India in the post-pandemic period. In this post, Goldar and Aggarwal conduct a cross-state analysis and highlight that Bi...
- Suresh Chand Aggarwal Bishwanath Goldar
- 04 November, 2024
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Street vending: Understanding emotional markups and market interactions
Despite the ubiquity of street vending in urban landscapes and its significance as a livelihood choice among the poor, it is challenging to collect comprehensive data on vendors – especially children....
- Ronak Jain
- 28 October, 2024
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Digital gender divide amidst India’s service-led growth
While India’s growth in recent decades has been services-led, entering high-productivity business services requires an adequate supply of high-skilled workers. In this context, Isha Gupta discusses ho...
- Isha Gupta
- 07 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Share of manufacturing in India’s total employment: No mean performance
Available jobs data show only a modest increase in the share of manufacturing in India’s total employment in the last 50 years. In this post, Bishwanath Goldar highlights that the outsourcing of servi...
- Bishwanath Goldar
- 06 September, 2024
- Perspectives
Paternalistic discrimination against women in the labour market
Women in many low-income countries are often excluded from the labour market. This article proposes a new explanation in the form of paternalistic discrimination – the preferential hiring of men to pr...
- Nina Buchmann Carl Meyer Colin D. Sullivan
- 21 August, 2024
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India’s massive employment problem and some ways out
In the recent announcement of India’s Union Budget 2024-25, significant emphasis was placed on the need for job creation. In this post, Pranab Bardhan presents a four-pronged strategy for the sustaina...
- Pranab Bardhan
- 05 August, 2024
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: Union Budget and Economic Survey
Following the release of the latest Economic Survey of India and the first Union Budget of the new government, this Policy Roundup applies a ‘jobs’ lens to these documents – presenting key takeaways a...
- Nalini Gulati
- 26 July, 2024
- Perspectives
The problem of India’s stagnant real wages
New data from the Labour Bureau and the National Sample Survey Office point to a virtual stagnation of real wages in India over the past decade. In this post, Das and Drèze argue that this trend point...
- Arindam Das Jean Drèze
- 26 July, 2024
- Perspectives
How can India become a manufacturing powerhouse?
India’s manufacturing sector has been stagnant over the past 20 years, in terms of contribution to national output as well as employment generation. In this article, Ejaz Ghani locates the explanation...
- Ejaz Ghani
- 22 July, 2024
- Perspectives