Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 12 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Robert Beyer, Chetan Ghate, Martin Rama

Employment in South Asia: a new data set

Robert C.M. Beyer, Milagros Chocce, Martin Rama

The purpose of this paper is to present a new data set of comparable employment indicators for South Asian countries, constructed from more than 60 primary data sources from 2001…

Jobless growth through the lens of structural transformation

Vinoj Abraham

This paper aims to analyse the observed “jobless growth” between 1993-1994 and 2011-2012 based on structural transformation to explain why the elasticity of employment generation…

Structure and growth of employment: evidence from India KLEMS data

Suresh Chand Aggarwal, Bishwanath Goldar

This study aims to analyze the structure and trend in employment in the Indian economy between 1980-8081 and 2015-2016.

Determining the odds of employment in Pakistan

Izza Aftab, Umair Mazher

The paper aims to identify the determinants of employment in Pakistan. In light of the jobless growth Pakistan has experienced starting from 2000, this is a valid concern. The…

Employment targeting in a frictional labor market

Chetan Ghate, Debojyoti Mazumder

Governments in both developing and developed economies play an active role in labor markets in the form of providing both formal public sector jobs and employment through public…