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An Analysis of the Informal Labour Market in India

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  • A Srija
  • Shrinivas Shirke

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The Indian labour market is characterised by predominance of informal employment with more than 90 per cent of India’s informal workforce working as self-employed and casual workers. The worrying trend is the increasing rate of informal employment even in the organised sector. By highlighting some of the not so easily observable trends, the article tries to argue that the challenges to informalisation are multi-faceted and that a single tool like labour reforms alone cannot address it completely. The need of the hour is to generate an enabling environment that will develop the urge of “formal†culture in the labour market.

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  • A Srija & Shrinivas Shirke, 2014. "An Analysis of the Informal Labour Market in India," Working Papers id:6353, eSocialSciences.
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    2. K. C. Smitha, 2018. "Agrarian Movements in Neoliberal India: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh Vyvasaya Vruthidarula Union," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 7(2), pages 123-144, August.
    3. Borooah, Vani, 2019. "The Labour Market in India," MPRA Paper 101673, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Manik Kumar & Sweety Pandey, 2021. "Wage Gap Between Formal and Informal Regular Workers in India: Evidence from the National Sample Survey," Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, Emerging Markets Forum, vol. 13(1), pages 104-121, January.
    5. Pranab R Choudhury & Ranjan K Ghosh & Sumita Sindhi, 2020. "Covid-19 Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition," Working Papers id:13058, eSocialSciences.
    6. Rajasekhar, D. & Kesavan, Santosh & Manjula, R., 2016. "Contributory pension schemes for the poor: Issues and ways forward," Working Papers 377, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.
    7. Choudhury, Pranab R. & Ghosh, Ranjan K. & Sindhi, Sumita, 2020. "Covid-19 Crisis, Pandemic Resilience and Linkages to Land: An Exposition," IIMA Working Papers WP 2020-05-01, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.

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