Globalization, labor markets and inequality in India - Mazumdar, Dipak (Routledge, 2008)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [342]-351) and index
Introduction. An Overview of globalization, reforms and macro-economic developments in India -- Part 1 : Trends in poverty, inequality, employment and earnings; 2. Poverty, growth and inequality in the pre- and post-reform periods and the patterns of urbanization in India : an analysis for all-India and the major states. 3. Trends in employment and earnings 1983-2000. 4. Accounting for the decline in labor supply in the nineties -- Part 2 : Regional Dimensions. 5. Some implications of regional differences in labor market outcomes in India / Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages. 6. Trend in regional disparities in poverty incidence : an analysis based on NSS regions -- Part 3 : Employment and earnings in the major sectors. 7. Agricultural productivity, off-farm employment and rural poverty : the problem of labor absorption in agriculture. 8. Employment elasticity in organized manufacturing in India. 9. Dualism in Indian manufacturing : causes and consequences. 10. Growth of employment and earnings in the tertiary sector -- Part 4 : Labor Market Institutions. 11. Legislation, enforcement and adjudication in Indian labor markets: origins, consequences and the way forward / Ahmad Ahsan Carmen Pages and Tirthankar Roy. 12. Strengthening employment and social security for unorganized-sector workers in India / Philip O'Keefe and Robert Palacios -- Part V. Epilogue and conclusions