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Women Workers and Employment Guarantee in Urban Rajasthan

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  • Choragudi, Krishna Priya

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This paper examines women workers’ participation in the Indira Gandhi Rozgar Guarantee Yojana–Urban (IRGY), a public works program introduced in 2022 in Rajasthan as one of the recent experiments with employment guarantee schemes in urban India. The study reveals that women demonstrate significantly higher interest and participation in IRGY than men, especially those engaged in housework/ casual wage work. A central benefit of IRGY for women lies in its role in easing their entry or return to the labor market through flexible and locally available employment provided by the government. In a context where female labor force participation has historically remained low, the paper shows how access to public employment can facilitate women’s participation in the labour force, expanding the pool of working women, not just redistributing work among those already employed, making IRGY a novel intervention in urban employment policy.

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  • Choragudi, Krishna Priya, 2026. "Women Workers and Employment Guarantee in Urban Rajasthan," SocArXiv kpnyq_v2, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:kpnyq_v2
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/kpnyq_v2
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