Labor Markets in India: Issues and Perspectives

T. C. A. Anant, R. Hasan, P. Mohapatra, R. Nagaraj and S. K. Sasikumar
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T. C. A. Anant: University of Delhi
R. Hasan: Asian Development Bank
P. Mohapatra: University of Delhi
R. Nagaraj: Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
S. K. Sasikumar: V. V. Giri National Labour Institute

Chapter Chapter 5 in Labor Markets in Asia, 2006, pp 205-300 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Market-oriented structural reforms in India, begun in the 1980s and intensified in the 1990s, are widely believed to have put the economy on a path of higher growth. But there are concerns that outcomes in labor markets have not improved for large segments of the labor force. Many observers of India’s labor markets are bothered by the slow growth of employment in the organized sector—where the “good” jobs are. Despite growth of around 5% in GDP per capita between 1993/94 and 1999/2000, the share of the organized sector in total employment decreased from 7.3% to 7.1%.1 At the same time, jobs in the organized sector have themselves been undergoing a change, with contract labor getting a growing share of employment. More broadly, workers on daily or periodic contracts have increased their share of total wage and salary employment, in what some observers have described as the “casualization” of the Indian workforce.

Keywords: Minimum Wage; Social Protection; Labor Regulation; Labor Force Participation Rate; Contract Labor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230627383_5

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