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Labor Markets in India

Do young Indian women work? Gujarat tops single working women, among lowest in marriedAs India celebrates Nykaa’s success, we must ask, how many young women can afford or choose to work even today?

India’s new employment policy ought to focus on young adultsThose in their twenties suffer significantly greater unemployment and job frustration than others

Workers are moving off Indian farms but where are they going?An agricultural employment study suggests that our prime-age citizens need to be employed by other sectors in huge numbers

TN unemployment due to skills mismatchWith rising education, young adults are seeking non-farm employment, which is not being created at the same pace

Manufacturing or high-tech? This is what India’s most prosperous states focus onWe studied the development models followed by Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka. And the differences were stark.

Education levels of SC, ST, OBC rising. A new study looks at caste gap in jobs, income tooData from NSSO 2004-05 and Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18 show that the education level of those belonging to OBC is now similar to General Category young men in urban India.

In ‘progressive’ Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, only 1 in 5 young urban women in paid workHas the Covid-19 pandemic further increased the gender gap in terms of employment in India?

More young urban Indian men appear to be studying longer, not looking for jobs: New researchResearchers looked at 2004-05 NSS data and 2017-18 labour force survey to find men in 20-29 age group in states like Bihar and Jharkhand either take an informal job or remain unemployed.

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Also check out the DDL open-access COVID platform for open-source, granular data on local estimates of health system capacity and local economic conditions

Making sense of excess mortalityOpen access data on excess mortality across 132 districts, 8 states

HMIS data: All India excess mortalityOne way to look at excess mortality from the Covid-19 Pandemic is through the Health Management Information System (HMIS) dataset. While…

Open data for India’s vaccination challengeWe added district level daily vaccination data to the open-access Covid portal we built last year.

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