Browsing by Author "Parida, J.K."

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Growth and Prospects of Non-Farm Employment in India: Reflections from NSS Data
(National Sample Survey Office - Industrial Statistics Wing, 2015) Parida, J.K.
This paper attempts to explore the recent trends of non-farm employment in India and to identify the employment generating sectors that would absorb the rapidly growing labour force using various rounds of NSS unit level data. Major findings of this study suggest that a structural change in employment has been taking place since 2004-05, that could be rightly named as a Lewisan transition. Construction, services and labour intensive manufacturing sectors together continued to absorb the workers who left agriculture during the post 2004-05 periods. Given the demographic scenario and huge participation in education (particularly secondary and above level), about 11 million skilled, 9 million low-skilled and 43 million unskilled job seekers are expected to join the labour force by 2019-20. Thus, along with the skill development initiatives the government has to give top priority for generating employment in manufacturing and service sectors
Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Rural India: Evidence from NSS data
(Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 2015) Parida, J.K.; Mohanty, Sanjay K.; Raman, K. Ravi
The paper attempts to study the migration trends and the factors driving it in India and also to understand and compare the marginal spending behavior of three groups of households in India - those not receiving remittances, receiving internal remittances and receiving international remittances - with an emphasis on its impact on investment in human capital defined as education and health. The analysis, based on a nation-wide sample survey, reveals that migration, besides playing a major role in poverty reduction, also has an important bearing on marginal spending behavior much in keeping with Engels Law and also that the amount set aside towards human capital formation is significant, which has wider policy impli
Why is the Labour Force Participation of Women Declining in India?
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017) Mehrotra, S.; Parida, J.K.
This paper explores the recent fall in female labour force participation and its socio-economic determinants in India. The major contribution of this paper is: to explore both micro- and macro-level factors which determine female labour force participation rate (LFPR); to examine the ?U shape? female LFPR, by examining the likely income and substitution effects of the real wage increase, to identify the sub-sectors within manufacturing and service sectors that could create jobs for new female job aspirants and those older women displaced from agriculture in recent years; and thus to understand the conditions under which female LFPR could be raised. Using both macro-level and household survey (NSS) data, we find that the recent fillip in the process of structural transformation has pushed a large number of females out of agriculture. The growing mechanization in agriculture and rising capital intensity in manufacturing sectors together have limited the opportunity for females because of their low education and skill and due to other cultural constraints. We also found that the rise in real wages in rural areas and the consequent improvement in the standard of living has produced a strong negative income effect which outweighs the positive substitution effect and as a result female LFPR has declined substantially. However, with the massive increase in female enrollment in secondary and higher levels of education, it could be expected that the substitution effect of the increase in real wage would become stronger if appropriate measures are taken by the government, which are suggested. ? 2017 Elsevier Ltd