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Features of Rural Underemployment in India: Evidence from Nine Villages

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  • Niladri Sekhar Dhar

    (Senior Research Fellow, Foundation for Agrarian Studies)

  • Navpreet Kaur

    (Ph. D Scholar, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University.)

Abstract

This paper examines aspects of the employment available to manual workers in rural India, using household-level data collected in nine villages in four States of India. In particular, it examines the social and gender composition of the labour force, and the extent of underemployment among manual workers. The results show that most Dalit and Adivasi workers in the villages were dependent on earnings from manual work. The number of days of employment – agricultural and non-agricultural – received by manual workers was very low. Women were confined to agricultural work, and to work within villages of residence. The paper also computes the number of days of work that would be necessary (at current wage rates) to ensure that households are able to reach minimal official poverty-line levels of earnings.

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  • Niladri Sekhar Dhar & Navpreet Kaur, 2013. "Features of Rural Underemployment in India: Evidence from Nine Villages," Journal, Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 3(1), pages 14-54, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:fas:journl:v:3:y:2013:i:1:p:14-54
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    1. Madhura Swaminathan, 2020. "Contemporary Features of Rural Workers in India with a Focus on Gender and Caste," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 63(1), pages 67-79, March.

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