Centre for Sustainable Employment
Generating and supporting research in the areas of job creation, employment, and sustainable livelihoods.
Popular Writing
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State of the Economy: How caste, gender, and family shape India’s workforce
In this State of the Economy podcast, V Nivedita, from Hindu BusinessLine, decodes the changing dynamics of India’s workforce with Amit Basole and Rosa Abraham.
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Azim Premji University presents State of Working India 2019
The report outlines policy proposals that can create employment at various skill levels for up to 50 million workers.
Featured Publications
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CSE Working Paper Series
Did the nation-wide implementation of e‑FMS in MGNREGS result in reduced expenditures? A re-examination of the evidence
This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e‑FMS) in India’s national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report…
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CSE Working Paper Series
Who was Impacted and How? | COVID-19 Pandemic and the Long Uneven Recovery in India
We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate aftermath and during the long uneven recovery till December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India. We find that the average all-India household income dropped between…