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Information and Communication Technology and Female Labour Market Participation

Vol. 58, Issue No. 11, 18 Mar, 2023
Ritika Jain, Tirtha Chatterjee

Does information and communication technology adoption lead to any broad differences in women’s labour force participation behaviour in India? We use the India Human Development Survey to examine employment decisions of women and find that its adoption leads to improvement in employment measures only for urban women.

Need for a Data Privacy Law

Vol. 57, Issue No. 34, 20 Aug, 2022
Gaurav Pathak

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Privacy Kit

On the Adequacy of the Quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey

Vol. 57, Issue No. 17, 23 Apr, 2022
G C Manna

This article examines the difference between the estimates of unemployment rate and worker population ratio in urban areas in the Periodic Labour Force Surveys for the quarters ending March and June 2021. It further investigates the sample size needed if the survey is to be equipped to detect the quarterly changes of specifi ed magnitudes in the respective population parameter.

Emerging Pattern and Trend of Migration in Megacities

Vol. 57, Issue No. 15, 09 Apr, 2022
Reimeingam Marchang

Rural-to-urban migration, particularly between states, towards megacities continues to contribute to their overall growth, although the trajectory of migration is shifting towards smaller cities.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Formal Sector Crisis in IT and ITeS

Vol. 57, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2022
Smriti Singh

The information technology and information technology-enabled services sector in India have largely been opaque, with little known about its social profile, work conditions, and office culture. The sector hides its everyday workings behind massive revenue figures and the number of jobs in the organised sector it has created. What slips through the cracks is the precarious nature of these permanent jobs and the shocking ineffectiveness of employee protections. These vulnerabilities, built into the employment and work culture of the sector, acquired a nightmarish quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. With most IT companies being forced to shift their employees to work-from-home formats, it is crucial to study how these vulnerabilities have affected the latter. This paper draws upon media reports, a short online survey, and telephonic interviews to highlight the working conditions in the IT and ITeS sector, the experience of working from home, and the overall state of its permanent employment.

 
 

Reflections on the NITI Aayog Multidimensional Poverty Index

Vol. 57, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 2022
Sanjay K Mohanty, U S Mishra, K D Maiti

The availability of information from the pan-India household survey, the National Family Health Survey, facilitates the adoption of the global multidimensional poverty framework and helps in generating results for the Indian states and districts, but it fails to capture the true level of multiple deprivations in better-off states and urban areas. The explicit limitation of the fresh endeavour by the NITI Aayog is its lack of comparability across the spectrum of human development within the country.

Income Distribution and Aggregate Demand in the Indian Economy

Vol. 57, Issue No. 7, 12 Feb, 2022
Zico Dasgupta

Does there exist a trade-off between labour income share and output growth rate? Or does a reduction in the wage share reduces the output growth rate? These questions remain central for analysing the impact of change in income distribution on the output growth rate. Since the dilution and suspension of labour laws involve exogenous changes in income distribution, the impact of such policies would depend on the relationship between income distribution and aggregate demand. This paper attempts to lay bare this relationship for the Indian economy through an empirical analysis of India’s macro data and a theoretical model based on the regression results.

 

Appointing High Court Judges—I

Vol. 57, Issue No. 4, 22 Jan, 2022
Alok Prasanna Kumar

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Loss of Job, Work, and Income in the Time of COVID-19

Vol. 57, Issue No. 2, 08 Jan, 2022
K P Kannan, Mohd Imran Khan

The counter-intuitive nature of the results of the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2019–20 is unravelled by arguing that in a situation of exogeneous shock, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the poor and vulnerable working people will be forced to engage in some kind of economic activity for sustaining

Designing an Effective Data Protection Regulator

Vol. 57, Issue No. 1, 01 Jan, 2022
Bilal Mohamed

The revised Personal Data Protection Bill, expected to be tabled in the current monsoon session of Parliament, is a significant move towards India’s first dedicated personal data protection legislation. One of the proposals is a data protection authority, a cross-sectoral regulator that will significantly influence the Indian regulatory landscape. Against the backdrop of these developments, the author seeks to draw out the appropriate regulatory design keeping in mind essential questions of India’s existing regulatory capacity, framework, and jurisprudence.

 

The SRS Data on Early Childhood Mortality in India

Vol. 56, Issue No. 52, 25 Dec, 2021
Usha Ram, F Ram, P M Kulkarni

Researchers have evaluated the quality of Sample Registration System data in the past and found errors in the estimated under-fi ve mortality rate. Discrepancies were observed in the age-specifi c death rates at ages 0–1 and infant mortality rate for India and state published by the Offi ce of the Registrar General of India in the SRS statistical report for 2018 and it was found that the published IMR and U5MR in the statistical report of many of the states are substantially different from the estimated IMR and U5MR in the life table constructed from the ASDRs published by the ORGI. Such errors are likely to incorrectly measure mortality gaps across population subgroups, for example, gender.

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