ICRIER Working Papers

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  Explaining the contractualisation of India’s workforce 

  Kapoor, Radhicka; Krishnapriya, P. P. (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2019-01-30)

  The employment structure of India’s organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed the widespread use of contract labour to India’s rigid employment protection legislation. Using plant level data from the Annual Survey of Industries, ...

  The employment structure of India’s organised manufacturing sector has undergone substantial changes over the last decade with a steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of directly hired workers. Much of the existing literature has attributed ...
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  The Anomaly of Women’s Work and Education in India 

  Ghai, Surbhi (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-12-30)

  This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Family Health Survey and CMIE Consumer Pyramid Household Survey to comment on the falling female labour force participation rates in India. It is found that not only has there been a fall in the female ...

  This paper utilizes a large cross-section of data sets such as the ILOSTAT, NSSO Quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Survey, Labour Bureau Annual Employment and Unemployment Survey, National Family Health Survey and CMIE Consumer Pyramid Household ...
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  The growing importance of consumer finance for financial inclusion in India 

  Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita; Paul, Sandeep (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-12-15)

  Financial inclusion or access to financial services is a major development goal for all nations across the globe. The concept has a multitude of dimensions from payments and savings accounts, credit, insurance and pensions and securities market. Ensuring quality access to formal financial services has always been a challenging task. Despite being a prime policy agenda for decades, the goal of universal ...

  Financial inclusion or access to financial services is a major development goal for all nations across the globe. The concept has a multitude of dimensions from payments and savings accounts, credit, insurance and pensions and securities market. Ensuring ...
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  Innovation, Efficiency and Inclusion: Integration of digital technologies in the Indian microfinance sector 

  Ray, Saon; Paul, Sandeep; Miglani, Smita (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-10-30)

  Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such area. Ongoing innovations in digital technology are contributing to reshaping its operational models, governance structures, its risk profile, industry networks and dominant practices. Innovation and integration of digital technology are both important because of their potential to ...

  Digital technologies are rapidly making inroads into all realms of human life and the microfinance sector is one such area. Ongoing innovations in digital technology are contributing to reshaping its operational models, governance structures, its risk ...

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