Shahra Razavi
Shahra Razavi
The right to social security has strong anchoring in international human rights law and forms a critical component of international labour standards. While social security has sometimes been portrayed as inimical to economic dynamism, there...
Structural Transformation and Employment Generation in India: Past Performance and the Way Forward [0.03%]
印度的结构转型与就业创造：过去的表现及未来方向
Amit Basole
Amit Basole
Historical experience suggests that a sustained rise in per capita incomes and improvement in employment conditions is not attainable without a structural transformation that moves surplus labour from agriculture and other informal economic...
Rosa Abraham,Anand Shrivastava
Rosa Abraham
The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy's (CMIE) Consumer Pyramid Household surveys have emerged as an important source of regular labour market data for India. Given the differences in methods in data collection between the CMIE and offic...
Bengali Migrant Workers in South India: A Mixed-Method Inquiry into Their Earnings, Livings and Struggle During Covid Pandemic [0.03%]
新冠疫情下印度南部的孟加拉族农民工：对其收入、生计及抗逆力的混合方法研究
Monalisha Chakraborty,Subrata Mukherjee,Priyanka Dasgupta
Monalisha Chakraborty
This study has tried to compare the earning and non-earning aspects of migrant workers from West Bengal engaged in different types of work in Karnataka and Kerala based on survey of 111 Bengali-speaking migrant workers and a number of in-de...
Gopal Krishna Roy,Amaresh Dubey
Gopal Krishna Roy
In this note, we assess the newly introduced Industrial Relations Code (IRC) 2020. First, we compare the provisions in IRC 2020 with its predecessor, Industrial Disputes Act (IDA) 1947, and the amendments to IDA 1947 in 1976 and 1982 regard...
Wondmagegn Biru Mamo,Habtamu Legese Feyisa,Mekonnen Kumlachew Yitayaw et al.
Wondmagegn Biru Mamo et al.
Since the beginning of the year 2020, the world has been suffering from an unprecedented situation due to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19). The negative impact of COVID-19 is one of the worrisome issues across the globe. Among others, em...
Social Identity, Gender and Unequal Opportunity of Earning in Urban India: 2017-2018 to 2019-2020 [0.03%]
印度城市中的社会身份、性别与不平等的赚钱机会：2017—2018至2019—2020
Panchanan Das,Sumita Biswas
Panchanan Das
This study measures inequality of opportunity in earnings of different types of workers living in urban locations by using methodology similar to those developed in Ferreira and Gignoux (Review of Income and Wealth 57: 622-657, 2011) with h...
Shiba Shankar Pattayat,Jajati Keshari Parida,I C Awasthi
Shiba Shankar Pattayat
Based on secondary data, this paper estimates the incidence of poverty by sectoral employment status of individuals and it explores the factors determining individual's joint probabilities of being poor and being engaged in the non-farm sec...
Bino Paul,Unmesh Patnaik,Kamal Kumar Murari et al.
Bino Paul et al.
COVID-19 has disrupted the Indian economy. Government-enforced lockdown to restrict the spread of infection has impacted the household economy in particular. We combine aggregates from national income accounts and estimates from the microda...
Dev Nathan
Dev Nathan
This paper argues for the characterization of contemporary capitalism as monopsony capitalism and, specifically, as global monopsony capitalism. This means that the degrees of buyer power should be added to the usual demand-supply analysis ...