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Estimating India’s Skill Gap on a Realistic Basis for 2022

by Santhosh Mehrotra; Ankita Gandhi and Bimal K Shoo Economic and Political Weekly, March 30, 2013 The window of opportunity called the demographic dividend is available to India only till 2040. Realising the demographic dividend brings to the fore the very serious challenge of skilling our labour force. But before devising the skill development strategy [...]

India’s Labour Market during the 2000s:Surveying the Changes

by Jayan Jose Thomas Economic and Political Weekly, December 22, 2012 The growth of gross domestic product in every sub-sector of the Indian economy accelerated during the second half of the 2000s, compared to the first half of the decade. However, employment growth in most sectors except construction decelerated. This jobless growth was partly the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Net Job Creation in the U.S. Economy:Lessons from Monthly Data, 1950-2011

by Salem  Abo-Zaid MPRA Paper No.39084, May 2012 In this paper, I study the monthly net job creation (NJC) at the aggregate level in the U.S. over the period 1950-2011. The paper has few important findings. First, NJC did not show a significant trend over the last 6 decades, which resulted in a fall in [...]

Wages and earnings of marginalized social and religious groups in India: Data sources, scope, limitations and suggestions

by Vinoj Abraham MPRA Paper No.37799, February 2012 This paper provides the major sources of data for understanding wages and earnings of Social and Religious Groups in India. It also discusses the limitations of the data sets,and issues for further research but are limited by the availability of data for such research. It also provides [...]

Total labor force and GDP of Bangladesh: an analysis in between the year 2002-2009

by Muhammad Iqbal Hossain MPRA Paper No.37557, February 2012 In this simple analysis study author took the Data on Labor force and GDP in the years of 2002-2009 of Bangladesh and found the correlation between Labor force and GDP.After analyzing the Data set the correlation coefficient (on overall volume) value is being found that r=.96, [...]

Low Workforce Participation of Educated Female and the Role of Work Organizations in Post-war Sri Lanka

Kumudinei DISSANAYAKE Discussion Papers No.307 Sri Lanka as a developing economy that achieved gender equity in education and a higher literacy rate (both adult and youth) in the South Asian region still records a low labor force participation and high unemployment rate of females when compared to their male counterparts. With the suggestion of existing [...]

Estimates of Workers Commuting from Rural to Urban and Urban to Rural India: A Note

S Chandrasekhar WP-2011-019 We provide estimates of workers residing in rural (urban) India and commuting to urban (rural) areas for work. The estimates are based on National Sample Survey Organisation’s survey of Employment and Unemployment (2009-10). In 2009-10, a total number of 8.05 million workers not engaged in agriculture commuted from rural to urban areas [...]

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