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How Inclusive Has Regular Employment Been in India? A Dynamic View

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  • Ashish Singh

    (Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India)

  • Upasak Das

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India)

  • Tushar Agrawal

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India)

Abstract

Using data from nationally representative employment and unemployment surveys, this article examines the inclusiveness of Indian economic growth by looking at the changes in socio-economic inequalities in regular employment over the period 1993–1994 to 2009–2010. Our findings reveal that, at the all India level, socio-economic inequalities in regular employment increased minutely during 1993–1994 to 2009–2010. However, the changes at the regional level are mixed. Regions of the North, Central and East show a decrease against an increase in Western and North Eastern regions. In the Southern region, the socio-economic inequalities in regular employment have remained almost same.A partir de données issues d’enquêtes représentatives à l’échelle nationale sur l’emploi et le chômage, cet article cherche à évaluer dans quelle mesure la croissance économique de l’Inde est inclusive en examinant l’évolution des inégalités socio-économiques dans l’accès à l’emploi régulier pendant la période 1993–1994 à 2009–2010. Nos résultats montrent que, au niveau national, les inégalités socio-économiques dans l’accès à l’emploi régulier ont très peu évolué au cours de la période en question. Cependant, la situation varie d’une région à l’autre. On constate en effet une réduction des inégalités dans les régions du nord, du centre et de l’est alors qu’elles ont augmenté dans les régions de l’ouest et du nord-est. Dans la région du sud, les inégalités socio-économiques dans l’accès à l’emploi régulier n’ont quasiment pas évolué.

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  • Ashish Singh & Upasak Das & Tushar Agrawal, 2013. "How Inclusive Has Regular Employment Been in India? A Dynamic View," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 25(3), pages 486-494, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:25:y:2013:i:3:p:486-494
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    1. Akanksha Choudhary & Gowtham T. Muthukkumaran & Ashish Singh, 2019. "Inequality of Opportunity in Indian Women," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 145(1), pages 389-413, August.
    2. Tushar Agrawal, 2014. "Gender and caste-based wage discrimination in India: some recent evidence [Geschlecht und Kaste-ansässige Lohndiskriminierung in Indien: Einige Neue Beweise]," Journal for Labour Market Research, Springer;Institute for Employment Research/ Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), vol. 47(4), pages 329-340, December.
    3. Akanksha Choudhary & Ashish Singh, 2017. "Are Daughters Like Mothers: Evidence on Intergenerational Educational Mobility Among Young Females in India," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 133(2), pages 601-621, September.
    4. Ashish Singh & Kaushalendra Kumar & Abhishek Singh, 2016. "Trends in Inequality in Food Consumption and Calorie Intake in India: Evidence from the Last Three Decades, 1983–2012," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 128(3), pages 1319-1346, September.
    5. Ashish Singh & Kaushalendra Kumar & Abhishek Singh, 2015. "The Changing Structure of Inequality in India, 1993-2010: Some Observations and Consequences," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(1), pages 590-603.

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