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Vulnerability of Construction Workers During COVID-19: Tracking Welfare Responses and Challenges. 2019冠状病毒病期间建筑工人的脆弱性:追踪福利应对和挑战。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-021-00348-4

Ajit Jha

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引用次数: 7

Analysing the Politics of Nigeria's 2019 National Minimum Wage: Towards a Public Policy. 分析尼日利亚2019年全国最低工资的政治:走向公共政策。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-10-27 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-021-00347-5

Paul Oshagwu Opone, Kelvin Obi Kelikwuma

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引用次数: 6

From Monopoly to Monopsony Capitalism. 从大富翁到垄断资本主义。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-10 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-021-00350-w

Dev Nathan

引用次数: 1

The Crisis of Extreme Inequality in India. 印度的极端不平等危机。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-08-10 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-021-00335-9

Ishan Anand, Anjana Thampi

引用次数: 4

Stalled Structural Change Brings an Employment Crisis in India. 结构性改革停滞导致印度就业危机。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-05-29 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-021-00317-x

Santosh Mehrotra, Jajati K Parida

引用次数: 24

Regional Patterns and Determinants of Commuting Between Rural and Urban India. 印度城乡通勤的区域模式和决定因素。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-10-14 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-020-00276-9

Vasavi Bhatt, S Chandrasekhar, Ajay Sharma

{"title":"Regional Patterns and Determinants of Commuting Between Rural and Urban India.","authors":"Vasavi Bhatt, S Chandrasekhar, Ajay Sharma","doi":"10.1007/s41027-020-00276-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-020-00276-9","url":null,"abstract":"Despite an increase in the number of workers commuting between rural and urban areas, much of the literature on worker mobility continues to be migration centric. This paper establishes the importance of rural-urban commuting in India. As per estimates from Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018-2019, an estimated 18.8 million individuals living in rural are working in urban India and the share of earnings from urban in total non-farm rural earnings is 19.3%. Among all rural workers, 7.3% are rural-urban commuters while only 2.1% of urban workers are urban-rural commuters. We document large variations at the sub-national level. Our results from a multinomial model to understand the factors associated with commuting highlight the importance of lagged regional unemployment rate. A high rural unemployment rate acts as a push factor, and a low urban unemployment rate acts as a pull factor for rural-urban commuting. The urbanness of occupations in a region is also an important correlate of commuting. The paper concludes by highlighting the need to prioritize questions in India's labour force survey that would help understand the nature of labour mobility and strength of rural-urban linkages.","PeriodicalId":34915,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Labour Economics","volume":"63 4","pages":"1041-1063"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s41027-020-00276-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38512386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

MGNREGA in the Times of COVID-19 and Beyond: Can India do More with Less? 2019冠状病毒病及以后的MGNREGA:印度能否以更少的资源做更多的事情?

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-09-08 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-020-00247-0

Gayathri Vasudevan, Shanu Singh, Gaurav Gupta, C K Jalajakshi

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引用次数: 22

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Internal Labour Migration in India: A 'Crisis of Mobility'. 2019冠状病毒病大流行与印度内部劳动力迁移:“流动危机”。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-11-20 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-020-00293-8

S Irudaya Rajan, P Sivakumar, Aditya Srinivasan

引用次数: 98

The Pandemic in India and Its Impact on Footloose Labour. 印度的疫情及其对流动劳动力的影响。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-10-30 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-020-00285-8

Jan Breman

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引用次数: 37

Manufactured Maladies: Lives and Livelihoods of Migrant Workers During COVID-19 Lockdown in India. 人为疾病:印度COVID-19封锁期间农民工的生活和生计。

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Indian Journal of Labour Economics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-10-21 DOI: 10.1007/s41027-020-00282-x

Anindita Adhikari, Navmee Goregaonkar, Rajendran Narayanan, Nishant Panicker, Nithya Ramamoorthy

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引用次数: 30