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Determinants and Persistence of benefits from theNational Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme:Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan, India

by Raghbendra Jha; Raghav Gaiha; Manoj K pandey and S.Sankar ASARC Workomg Paper no. 2013/02 India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and [...]

NREGS net expands to include railway works

by Kirtika Suneja, Sandip Das The Financial Express [9-Mar-2013] National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) — will now be able to create permanent infrastructure assets, giving the seven-year-old scheme providing livelihood to almost 5 crore families annually an altogether new direction. The rural development ministry has decided to include building railway underpasses under the ambit of [...]

Global Employment Trends 2013: Recovering from a second jobs dip

Published by ILO, January 2013 Global Employment Trends 2013 highlights how the crisis is increasingly raising trend unemployment rates, partly driven by sectoral shifts of jobs that had been triggered by the crisis. Despite historically low interest rates in many advanced economies, investment and employment have not shown tangible signs of recovery. Depressed growth prospects [...]

INEQUALITIES REINFORCED? SOCIAL GROUPS, GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT

Neetha N Occasional Paper No.59 (January 2013) In the post liberalisation period, female employment has remained a matter of puzzle with contradictory trends and patterns, especially when one looks at the macro data. Much of this confusion has been on account of the interconnected nature of female employment with other social parameters, which are outside [...]

Heterogeneous Pro-Poor Targeting in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

by Yanyan Liu  and Christopher B arrett Economic and Political Weekly, March 09, 2013 Using 2009-10 National Sample Survey data, this paper describes patterns of job-seeking, rationing, and participation in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. At the national level, it finds that the self-targeting design of greater rates of self-selection into the [...]

Pension Overhaul May Not Lure Foreigners

Don’t expect foreign companies to rush into India’s pension sector even when they are allowed to get a piece of it, say market experts. Last week, India’s federal cabinet cleared a bill that would, among other things, allow foreign companies to establish standalone pension fund companies in India. Until now, foreign companies have only been [...]

Industrialization, employment and poverty

by Alejandro Lavopa and Adam Szirmai UNU-MERIT Working Paper no. 2012-081, December 2012 The impact of manufacturing on economic growth, and more broadly, on economic development, has been extensively studied in the literature. Less is known about the effects of manufacturing growth and industrialization on employment creation and poverty alleviation. This report provides an analytical [...]

World Development Report 2013: Jobs

Published by The World Bank, 2012. The World Development Report 2013: Jobs stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that do the most for development can spur a virtuous cycle. The report finds that poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as [...]

Creating Good Employment Opportunities for the Rural Sector

by ANDREW FOSTER Asian Development Review, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 1−28, 2012 This paper examines the potential for sector-specific productivity growth, human capital, credit markets, and infrastructure to contribute to thedevelopment of stable, well-paid employment in rural areas of low-incomecountries. Particular emphasis is placed on the way that different sectors ofthe rural economy interact [...]

Heterogeneous pro-poor targeting in India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

by Yanaun and Christopher B. Barrett IFPRI Discission paper no.01218, October 2012 India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) is the largest public works employment project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns [...]

Labor Market Impacts of a Large-Scale Public Works Program: Evidence from the Indian Employment Guarantee Scheme

Laura Zimmermann IZA DP No. 6858 Recent years have seen an increasing interest in using public-works programs as antipoverty measures in developing countries. This paper analyzes the rural labor market impacts of the Indian National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, one of the most ambitious programs of its kind, by using a regression discontinuity design. I [...]

Education and Employment among Muslims in India:An Analysis of Patterns and Trends

by Rakesh Basant IIMA Working Paper no.2012-09-03,  September After the submission of the Sachar Committee Report, several studies have undertaken data-based analysis of the socioeconomic and educational conditions of Muslims in India. Many researchers, policy makers and, in fact, common Muslims believe that education can be the only mechanism to enhance their socioeconomic status and [...]

“MGNREGA Sameeksha 2012″: An anthology of research studies on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (2006–2012)

By the Ministry of Rural Development, India [2012] This report by Ministry of Rural Development is an analytical anthology of all major research studies done on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA) that were published in various academic journals or came out as stand-alone reports. The report begins with a brief introduction to MGNREGA, its [...]

Missing Labour Force: An Explanation

by Indira Hirway Economic and Political Weekly, Spetember 15, 2012 Trends in employment and unemployment in India, as presented by the quinquennial surveys of the National Sample Survey Office for the past decades, have raised many questions for which there are no easy answers. This paper attempts to address some missing links. With the help [...]

“Global Employment Outlook: Bleak Labour Market Prospects for Youth”

An ILO paper shows that the impact of the euro crisis is spreading as far afield as East Asia and Latin America, worsening the situation for many young jobseekers. Jobless rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced to emerging economies, according to an [...]

Can Policies Affect Employment Intensity of Growth? A Cross-Country Analysis

E. Crivelli; D. Furceri; and J. Toujas-Bernaté IMF Working Paper WP/12/218 The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the period 1991–2009, the results suggest that structural policies [...]

Challenge , Volume 55 Number 5 / September-October 2012

Letter from the Editor p. 3 Jeff Madrick A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability p. 5 Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt The Yo-Yo Years: More Recessions in the West and Volatility for the Rest p. 39 Anirvan Banerji, Lakshman Achuthan Summing Up Structuralist Development Macroeconomics and New Developmentalism p. 59 Luiz [...]

GENDER DIMENSIONS:EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN INDIA, 1993-94 TO 2009-10

by Indrani Mazumdar and Neetha, N CWDS Ocassional Paper no.56, August 2011 The recentky released key indicators of Employment and Unemployment in India 2009-10(NSSO,2011) shows that the disturbing trend of a steep fall in female work participation rates that had appeared in 2007-08 has continued. With the increase in the male workforce by 22.3 million [...]

Distress-Driven Employment and Feminisation of Work in Kasargod District, Kerala

by Shalina Susan Mathew Economic & Political Weekly, June 30, 2012 This paper examines the feminisation of labour in a rural agrarian district in Kerala beset by agrarian indebtedness and distress. Without disregarding that women in less developed and agrarian economies are mostly engaged in agriculture and related activities, the focus here is on the [...]

Creating jobs in South Asia’s conflict zones

by Lakshmi Iyer and Indhira Santos WB Policy Research Working Paper no.  WPS 6104, June 2012 This paper describes the key challenges to job creation in conflict-affected environments in South Asia. It uses household survey data since the early 2000s for Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to document the characteristics of labor markets in conflict-affected [...]

Urban Employment in India:Recent Trends and Future Prospects

by Martha Chen Paper presented at ICRIER Workshop on”Growth and Inclusion”, january 2012 During the first decade of the 21st century, the Indian economy grew at rates in excess of 7 per cent per annum, up from average growth rates of around 5 per cent during the 1990s. However, these high rates of output growth [...]

The world at work: Jobs, pay, and skills for 3.5 billion people

by Richard Dobbs, Anu Madgavkar, Dominic Barton, Eric Labaye, James Manyika, Charles Roxburgh, Susan Lund, Siddarth Madhav McKinsey Global Institute Report [2012] Over the past three decades, a global labor market has taken shape, spurring a massive movement from “farm to factory” in emerging markets and boosting output and productivity. But today, the strains on [...]

ICT Skills and Employment NEW COMPETENCES AND JOBS FOR A GREENER AND SMARTER ECONOMY

OECD OECD Digital Economy Papers 198 [2012] The report first analyses the post-crisis state of ICT-related employment, including employment in the ICT sector and employment across the economy, where ICTs are used as main tools for the job (i.e. ICT-skilled employment). The report then discusses the impact of green ICTs on employment and skills. This [...]

International Labour Review, International Labour Organization Volume 151, Issue 1-2 , June 2012

Original Articles Mapping anti-discrimination law onto inequality at work: Expanding the meaning of equality in international labour law (pages 1–19) Colleen SHEPPARD Employment and real macroeconomic stability: The regressive role of financial flows in Latin America (pages 21–41) Ricardo FFRENCH-DAVIS Wage differentials and disability across Europe: Discrimination and/or lower productivity? (pages 43–60) Miguel Á. MALO [...]

Creating Employment in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan

by Santhosh Mehrotra; Ankit Gandhi; BK Shoo and Parta Saha Economic & Political Weekly, May 12, 2012 This paper analyses employment trends and addresses the problem of creating decent and productive employment in the non-agricultural sector during the first decade of the 21st century. Its primary interest is to examine the transition from informal employment [...]

Seasonal Migration for Livelihoods in India: Coping, Accumulation and Exclusion

By Priya Deshingkar and Daniel Start Overseas Development Institute:Working Paper 220/August 2003 Seasonal and circular migration of labour for employment has become one of the most durable components of the livelihood strategies of people living in rural areas. Migration is not just by the very poor during times of crisis for survival and coping but [...]

Does India’s Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?

by Puja Dutta, Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion, Dominique van de Walle EPW April 21, 2012 An analysis of the National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 confirms expectations that poorer states of India have more demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. However, we find considerable unmet demand for work on [...]

Employment effect of innovation: microdata evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Abdul Waheed UNU-MERIT Working Papers  #2012-024 The analysis of the impact of innovation on employment growth is an important topic for policy makers, because (un)employment is an important social topic, and the effects of innovation on employment are often poorly understood. Despite the significant importance of this relationship, very few studies on this topic for [...]

Journal of Income and Wealth, Volume 33, No: 2, July-December 2011

Contents 1)      Integrated Economic Statistics for Implementing 2008 SNA A. C. Kulshreshtha 2)      Health and Education Accounts Tarunbala 3)      Health Care Output: A Framework towards Measurement Subhendu Chakrabarthi 4)      An Improvement to Labour Input Method: The Case of Health Care Services Suparna Pal 5)      Analysis of Social Sector Spending across States over Time in India [...]

Addressing the employment challenge: India’s MGNREGA

by Ajit K. Ghose ILO Employment Working Paper No. 105 This important study provides an early assessment of India’s much acclaimed job creation programme – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). It examines, in particular, the effects of the programme on employment, wages and incomes of the rural poor. It also considers [...]

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