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Occupational Segregation in the Indian Labour Market

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  • Tushar Agrawal

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

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This article measures the extent of occupational segregation for gender and social groups in India. It is based on a recent round of a nationally representative employment and unemployment survey of the Government of India. We use overall and local measures of occupational segregation. We find that occupational segregation for both genders and social groups is higher in the urban sector than in the rural sector. Females are more segregated than their male counterparts in both sectors. Among social groups, scheduled caste and scheduled tribe groups have higher levels of segregation. Furthermore, we find that regular workers and the elderly are more segregated when we examine segregation, respectively, by nature of employment and across age groups.

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  • Tushar Agrawal, 2016. "Occupational Segregation in the Indian Labour Market," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 28(2), pages 330-351, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:28:y:2016:i:2:p:330-351
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    1. Sucharita Maji, 2019. "“Doing Men’s Jobs†: A Commentary on Work–Life Balance Issues Among Women in Engineering and Technology," Metamorphosis: A Journal of Management Research, , vol. 18(1), pages 68-75, June.
    2. Muhammad Zaheer Khan & Rusmawati Said & Nur Syazwani Mazlan & Norashidah Mohamed Nor, 2023. "Measuring the occupational segregation of males and females in Pakistan in a multigroup context," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, December.
    3. Coral Río & Olga Alonso-Villar, 2022. "On Measuring Segregation in a Multigroup Context: Standardized Versus Unstandardized Indices," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 163(2), pages 633-659, September.
    4. Rosa Abraham & Amit Basole & Surbhi Kesar, 2022. "Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 39(1), pages 101-128, April.
    5. Rammohan, Anu & Goli, Srinivas & Reddy, Bheemeshwar, 2017. "Occupational Segregation by Caste and Gender in India," MPRA Paper 101969, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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