•  

Contributor : Profile

Name Surname

Smit Gade

Good Business Lab
gade@goodbusinesslab.org

Smit Gade is Data and Research Manager at Good Business Lab (GBL) where he looks after research design and field implementation. He currently works on research projects related to Female labour force participation, Skilling, and Labour productivity.

Prior to GBL, he worked as a Research Associate at Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab(J-PAL) working on Early Childhood Development projects with the Government of Rajasthan and the Government of Tamil Nadu.

His research interests also include Child Malnutrition, Economics of Corruption, and Political Economy. He holds M.Phil. Economics from Oxford University.

Posts by Smit Gade

भारत के विनिर्माण क्षेत्र के श्रमिकों में निवेश और उत्पादकता

पहली मई को दुनिया भर में श्रम दिवस मनाया जाता है और आधुनिक विश्व की अर्थ व्यवस्था और प्रगति में श्रम, श्रम बाज़ार व श्रमिकों की महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका है। इसी सन्दर्भ में आज के इस लेख में, अध्वर्यु एवं अन्य...

  • दृष्टिकोण

How worker investments can fuel productivity in India’s manufacturing sector

In the second article in the Ideas@IPF2023 series, Adhvaryu et al. synthesise some facts on India’s declining manufacturing productivity and variations across states and industries. They examine exi...

  • Perspectives

Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice

Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnatak...

  • Articles

Role of private sector in the holistic skilling of India’s workforce

Low skill levels of workers are a key reason for low labour productivity in developing countries. In this article, Adhvaryu et al. discuss research that centres around two important questions in this...

  • Perspectives