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Assessing The Need For Living Wage Benchmark Studies For The Tea Sector In Assam And West Bengal

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  • Kuriakose Mamkoottam

    (Anker Research Institute)

  • Vidya Rangan

    (ISEAL)

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There is clear recognition among all stakeholders that the current minimum wage levels for tea workers – in both Assam and West Bengal – are not adequate to support a decent life for workers and their families. There is also acknowledgement that if credible living wage estimation is done, substantial gaps will emerge between prevailing wages and living wage estimates (with the gap possibly higher in Assam than in West Bengal). However, a similar consensus of views does not exist regarding the need to undertake Anker Methodology living wage benchmark studies; nor, more significantly, on whether the tea industry is ready and willing to accept and implement recommendations to raise wages based on such benchmark studies.

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  • Kuriakose Mamkoottam & Vidya Rangan, 2023. "Assessing The Need For Living Wage Benchmark Studies For The Tea Sector In Assam And West Bengal," Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) 23-05-08, Universidad Privada Boliviana.
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    1. Sandhya Barge & Richard Anker & M.E. Khan & Martha Anker, 2018. "Living Wage Benchmark Report: Rural India, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu (July 2018)," Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) 18-01-03, Universidad Privada Boliviana.
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      Keywords

      Living wage; living income; Anker Methodology; tea sector; West Bangal;
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      JEL classification:

      • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
      • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
      • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General

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