MacroScan - Employment

Dec 12th 2011, Jayati Ghosh

The actual impact of large corporate retail, and especially multinational retail chains, in developing countries clearly shows that many of the claims made by proponents of such corporate retailing - in terms of employment generation or benefits to producers and consumers - are suspect or sometimes completely false.

Retrogression in Retail

Dec 1st 2011, C.P. Chandrasekhar

Permitting FDI in retail trade, wherein a few oligopolistic buyers will come to dominate retail trade, will lead to adverse employment effects and an erosion of the real incomes of small crop producers.

Employment Generation as an Economic Strategy for Uncertain Times

Nov 14th 2011, Jayati Ghosh

This is the acceptance speech made by the author at the award function of the ILO Decent Work Research Prize, 2010. Discussing the growing pressures in the current global scenario, she argues for a shift in macroeconomic strategy towards domestic wage- and employment-led growth as a means to sustainable growth, as well as an end in itself.

The G20 and Employment Outlook

Oct 12th 2011, Jayati Ghosh

A recent ILO document on employment and labour market outlook in G20 countries points towards an economic crisis of major magnitude in most of them. According to the report, the two key challenges for global policy makers at present are to ensure better utilisation of labour resources and better quality jobs.

The Challenge of Ensuring Full Employment in the Twenty-first Century

Oct 12th 2011. Jayati Ghosh

The recent economic growth process in India and other parts of the developing world exhibits the inability of even high rates of output growth to generate sufficient opportunities for 'decent work' to meet the needs of the growing labour force. Therefore, there is a clear case for a shift towards wage-led and domestic demand-led growth, particularly in the economies that are large enough to sustain this shift.

Employment Shifts after the Global Crisis

Oct 4th 2011, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

The stagnation of employment in developed countries and apparent recovery in developing countries after the Great Recession of 2008-09 have renewed perceptions of a global shift in employment to the developing world, particularly in manufacturing activities. This article uses the most recent available ILO data to examine the extent to which such a shift is actually occurring.

Approaching the 12th Plan

Sep 26th 2011, Jayati Ghosh

Considering India’s slow growth of employment in the recent period because of our demographic bulge and increasing numbers of educated youth in search of productive employment, the need of the hour is to redesign our growth strategy and use social policy and social expenditure to generate more employment as employment creation is the most important mechanism for achieving inclusive economic growth.

Higher Education: Dealing with higher expectations

Sep 7th 2011, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

There has been a significant increase in enrolment in higher education in developing countries (especially Asia) in the past decade. However, this positive change also brings forth certain challenges, the most obvious of which is the challenge of generating enough employment to meet expectations of growing numbers of new graduates.

The Urbanisation Challenge

Aug 10th 2011, Jayati Ghosh

Addressing the problems posed by growing ''urbanisation'' is one of the major challenges for India at present. The country faces a potentially deadly combination of growing population in small urban areas with poor or possibly non-existent facilities and inadequate good quality employment generation.

Women's Work in India: Has anything changed?

Aug 9th 2011, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

One of the striking features of the latest National Sample Survey round results is the apparent decline in female employment in 2009-10 compared to 2004-05. The other depressing feature that emerges from the survey is that economic growth has still not generated a process of employment diversification for women.

Deciphering Employment Trends

Jul 26th 2011, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

One distinctive feature of the labour market in India is the fact that casual work in the construction sector has been the main source of employment during a period when India transited to its much-celebrated high-growth trajectory.

The Latest Employment Trends from the NSSO

Jul 14th 2011, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

The results of the latest NSSO large survey on employment and unemployment provide crucial evidence on the pattern of inadequate job creation in this phase of high economic growth.

Is the MNREGS Affecting Rural Wages?

Feb 4th 2011, Jayati Ghosh

Despite numerous problems with the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the Scheme has borne some positive results. Ironically, the moderate success of the Scheme in improving the conditions and bargaining power of rural labour, including that of women workers, has now become another source of its criticism.

Public Works and Wages in Rural India

Jan 11th 2011, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

Data from the 64th Round of the National Sample Survey, which was specifically concerned with migration and employment conditions, allow for an examination of trends in real wages and the impact of the MNREGS on wages and unemployment. In this article, the authors consider the evidence of these effects on the work conditions of rural casual labour, especially women workers.

Migrating for Work

Dec 28th 2010, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

The NSSO 64th Round Survey, which was conducted in 2007-08, was concerned specifically with migration. This article examines the broad trends indicated by that survey. It is seen that there are some important changes in the pattern of movement for work, especially with the significant decline in rural male migration rates.

Employment under the New Growth Trajectory

Dec 22nd 2010, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

A comparison of the results of the 55th, 61st and 64th Rounds of the NSS permits an assessment of the trends in employment in India during the years when India transited to an era of high growth. It suggests that some of the optimism generated by the results for 2004-05 may not be warranted.

The Crisis and Employment in Asia

Feb 15th 2010, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

Despite scepticism about its sustainability, evidence shows that the crisis of 2008-09 has bottomed out and a recovery is likely, driven by the fiscal stimulus offered by governments across the world. But figures from the ILO indicate that the impact of the stimulus on employment appears uneven, with export dependent economies in Asia too adversely affected.

The Plight of Construction Workers

Aug 5th 2009, Jayati Ghosh

Lakhs of construction workers in Delhi face inadequate safety provisions, poor working arrangements and dire living conditions. But, even as the money collected as cess for meeting the social security needs of these workers lies unutilised, an outlandish proposal has been made to use a part of this money in a way that will effectively subsidise contractors and builders.

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