Employment Journal articles (until 2025)
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- Abraham, R., & Kesar, S. (2025). Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy. World Development, 195, 107029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107029
- Goel, D. & Abraham, R. (2025). “Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from a field survey in India”. Development Policy Review, 43(1) https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12813
- Mamunuru, S. M., Shrivastava, A., & Jayadev, A. (2025). Social networks and experienced inequality. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229, 106799. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016726812400413X
- Goyal, A., Bhattacharya, R., & Basole, A. (2024). Educational infrastructure and growth of small towns: Evidence from India. Habitat International, 153, 103202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103202
- Bheemarasetti, S., De, A., Narayanan, R., Saboo, P. & Tamang, L. (2025). MGNREGA as a Technological Laboratory: Analysing wage payment delays as a result of two digital interventions. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41027-024 – 00539‑9
- Moharir, A. & Narayanan, R. (2024). Interstate Development and Disparity An Unsupervised Learning Approach. Economic & Political Weekly 59, 74 – 80.
- Abraham, R., Ameen, H., Basole, A. (2024). Structural transformation and gender earnings gap in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 59(10). https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/10/special-articles/structural-transformation-and-gender-earnings-gap.html
- Rakshit, A , Basole, A. (2024). Entrepreneurship and marginalised social identities in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 59(13). https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/13/special-articles/entrepreneurship-and-marginalised-social.html
- Halder, T. Arora, A. (2024). Structural Transformation among Scheduled Castes in India: a Jati-level analysis. Economic and Political Weekly, 59(12) https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/12/special-articles/structural-transformation-among-scheduled-castes.html
- Jha, Mrinalini and Amit Basole. 2023. Labour Incomes in India: A Comparison of Two National Household Surveys. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2023.
- Bahal, G., Iyer, S., Shastry, K. and Shrivastava, A., 2023. Religion, Covid-19 and mental health. European Economic Review, 160, p.104621.
- Ticku, R, A Shrivastava and S Iyer (eds). 2023. Economic Shocks and Religious Conflict in Medieval India. CEPR Press Discussion Paper No. 17986, 2023.
- Basole, Amit. 2022. Structural Transformation and Employment Generation in India: Past Performance and the Way Forward. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 65(2), 295 – 320.
- Bahal, G., Shrivastava, A. 2022. Fiscal transfers and inflation: evidence from India. Empirical Economics 63, 1837 – 1858 (2022).
- Goel, Deepti, Rosa Abraham and Rahul Lahoti. 2022. Improving Survey Quality Using Paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15041.
- Abraham, Rosa and Anand Shrivastava. 2022. How Comparable are India’s Labour Market Surveys? Ind. J. Labour Econ. 65, 321 – 346 (2022).
- Jha, Mrinalini, and Rahul Lahoti. 2022. Who Was Impacted And How? Covid-19 Pandemic And The Long Uneven Recovery In India, WIDER Working Paper 2022⁄105 Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2022.
- Abraham, R., Lahoti, R. & Swaminathan, H. (2021) Childbirth and women’s labour market transitions in India (revised). WIDER Working Paper 2021⁄149. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
- Nath, Paaritosh and Amit Basole. 2021. Did Employment Rise or Fall in India between 2011 and 2017? Economic and Political Weekly, August 21, 2021.
- Buddha, C., Dhorajiwala, S., and Narayanan, R. 2021. Can a machine learn democracy? AMCIS 2021 Proceedings. 8.
- Abraham, R., Basole, A., Kesar, S. 2021. Down and out: The Gendered Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on India’s Labour Market. Economia Politica.
- Bahal, Girish and Anand Shrivastava. 2021. Supply variabilities in public workfares. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 150.
- Surbhi Kesar, Rosa Abraham, Rahul Lahoti, Paaritosh Nath & Amit Basole. 2021. Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d’études du développement.
- Basole, Amit. 2021. Labour, Livelihoods, and Employment in the 2021 – 22 Union Budget. Economic and Political Weekly, February 27, 2021.
- Adhikari, A., Goregaonkar, N., Narayanan, R. et al. 2020. Manufactured Maladies: Lives and Livelihoods of Migrant Workers During COVID-19 Lockdown in India. Ind. J. Labour Econ. 63, 969 – 997 (2020).
- Gupta, Gaurav and Basole, Amit. 2020. India’s Information Technology industry: prospects for growth and role in structural transformation. Decision 47, 341 – 361.
- Bhattacharya, Snehashish, and Surbhi Kesar. 2020. Precarity and development: production and labor processes in the informal economy in India. Review of Radical Political Economics 52(3): 387 – 408.
- Kesar, Surbhi and Snehashish Bhattacharya. 2020. Dualism and Structural Transformation: The Informal Manufacturing Sector in India. The European Journal of Development Research, 32: 560 – 586.
- Basole Amit and Amay Narayan. 2020. Long-Run Performance of the Organised Manufacturing Sector in India: An Analysis of Sub-periods and Industry-level Trends. Economic and Political Weekly, March 7, 2020.
- Goel, Deepti, and Ashwini Deshpande. 2020. Social Identity and Perceived Income Adequacy. Review of Development Economics, 24(2): 339 – 361
- Lahoti, Rahul and Soham Sahoo. 2020. Are educated leaders good for education? Evidence from India. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 176, 42 – 62.
- Chaudhary Latika, Jared Rubin, Sriya Iyer, and Anand Shrivastava. 2020. Culture and colonial legacy: Evidence from public goods games, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 173, 107 – 129.
- Sood, Atul and Paaritosh Nath. 2020. Labour Law Changes Innocuous Mistakes or Sleight of Hand?. Economic and Political Weekly, LV(22) 33 – 37.
- Rajendran Narayanan and Sakina Dhorajiwala. 2019. The Namesake: Human Costs of Digital Identities. Economic and Political Weekly, December 9, 2019.
- Narayanan, R., Dhorajiwala, S. & Golani, R. 2019. Analysis of Payment Delays and Delay Compensation in MGNREGA: Findings Across Ten States for Financial Year 2016 – 2017. Ind. J. Labour Econ. 62, 113 – 133 (2019).
- Abraham, Rosa. 2019. Informal Employment and the Structure of Wages in India: A Review of Trends. Review of Income and Wealth, 65: S102-S122.
- Goel, Deepti, and Kevin Lang. 2019. Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants. ILR Review 72(2): 355 – 381.
- Lahoti, Rahul and Rahul Mukhopadhyay. 2019. School choice in rural India: perceptions and realities in four states. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(49), 51 – 57.
- Nath, Paaritosh. 2019. Employment Scenario and the Reservation Policy. Economic and Political Weekly, LIV (19), 56 – 61.
- Nath, Paaritosh. 2019. Driving down the Perilous Path. Economic and Political Weekly, 54(42). ISSN (Print) – 0012 – 9976.
- Nath, P., Siddiqi, U and Sood, A. 2019. Thinking Growth or Thinking Employment. India Exclusion Report 2018 – 19. (5th ed.). New Delhi: Yoda Press.
- Vivek S, Rajendran Narayanan, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Rajesh Veeraraghavan & Vibhore Vardhan. 2018. Are Technology-enabled Cash Transfers Really ‘Direct’? Economic and Political Weekly, July 28, 2018.
- Basole A. 2018.Understanding India’s Jobs Crisis, in Education, Employment and Employability Landscape of India. Volume 10, Issue 5 NHRD Network Journal, January 2018.
- Bhattacharya, Snehashish, and Surbhi Kesar. 2018. Possibilities of transformation: The informal sector in India. Review of Radical Political Economics 50(4): 727 – 735.
- Deshpande, Ashwini, Deepti Goel, and Shantanu Khanna. 2018. Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India. World Development 102: 331 – 344.
- Iyer, S., & Shrivastava, A. 2018. Religious riots and electoral politics in India. Journal of Development Economics, 131, 104 – 122.
- Abraham, R. 2017. Informality in the Indian Labour Market: An Analysis of Forms and Determinants. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer; The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(2), pages 191 – 215, June.
- Basole A. 2017. The Politics and Economics of Demonetisation (Hindi). Pratiman, June 2017.
- Basole A. 2017. What Does the Rural Economy Need: Analysis of the Promises for Rural India. Economic and Political Weekly Union Budget 2017 – 2018 Special Issue, March 4, 2017.
- Basole A. 2016. Informality and Flexible Specialization: Apprenticeships and Knowledge Spillovers in an Indian Silk Weaving Cluster. Development and Change, Vol 47, No.1, pp.157 – 187.
- Lahoti, R., & Swaminathan, H. 2016. Economic Development and Women’s Labor Force Participation in India. Feminist Economics, 22(2), 168 – 195.
- Lahoti, R. 2016. Questioning the “Phenomenal Success” of Aadhaar-linked Direct Benefit Transfers for LPG. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 51, Issue No. 52.
- Swaminathan, H., Lahoti, R., & Suchitra, J. Y. 2012. Gender asset and wealth gaps: Evidence from Karnataka. Economic and Political Weekly, 59 – 67.
- Khanna, Shantanu, Deepti Goel, and René Morissette. 2016. Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004 – 2012. IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5:18.
- Basole A. 2015. Authenticity, Innovation and the Geographical Indication in an Artisanal Industry: The Case of the Banarasi Sari. The Journal of World Intellectual Property, 18:3/4, pp. 127 – 149.
- Basole A, Basu D, and Bhattacharya R. 2015. Determinants and Impact of Subcontracting: Evidence from India’s Informal Manufacturing Sector. International Review of Applied Economics, 29:3, pp.374- 402.
- Basole A and Basu D. 2015. Non-Food Expenditures and Consumption Inequality in India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 36, pp. 43 – 53.
- Basole A and Basu D. 2015. Fueling Calorie Intake Decline: Household Level Evidence from Rural India. World Development, Vol. 68, pp. 82 – 95.
- Basole A. 2014. The Informal Economy from a Knowledge Perspective. Yojana Development Monthly, October 2014.
- Basole A. 2014. Dynamics of Income Inequality in India: Insights from World Top Incomes Database. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49, No.40, pp.14 – 17.
- Nath, P. 2014. Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Growth in India’s Organised Manufacturing Sector, 1990 – 2010. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 57 (4), 465 – 499.
- Sood, A., Nath, P. and Ghosh, S. 2014. Deregulating Capital, Regulating Labour: The Dynamics in the Manufacturing Sector in India. Economic and Political Weekly, LXIX (26 & 27), 58 – 68.