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Item Wage Mobility dynamics in the Indian Labour Market: A Pseudo Panel Approach(Indian Econometric Society, 2019) Padhi, BalakrushnaThe degree of mobility in wages is conceived as an important indicator to gauge flexibility and freedom in the labour market and equality of opportunity in a society. This paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for the Indian labour market, by applying pseudo-panel methodology. This study presents the pseudo panel method to study and examine crucial aspect of individual earning dynamics using repeated cross-sectional datasets of NSSO employment and unemployment rounds since last two decades (1993-94 to 2011-12).Item Labour Force and Employment Growth in India Evidence from the EUS (2011–12) and PLFS (I and II)(Economic Political Weekly, 2021-11) Padhi, BalakrushnaEmployment is one of the key building blocks of Indian development policy (Papola and Sahu 2012). Driving growth in the labour and workforce is a critical challenge for Indian policymakers and is a hotly contested issue in political and academic debates. Creating decent job opportunities outside of the agricultural sector has been one of the biggest challenges to confront policymakers in recent decades in their attempts to achieve faster and more inclusive growth. In this regard, India’s low employment growth, termed “jobless growth,” in a phase of high-income growth, has sparked intense debates in the Indian labour market since the turn of the 20th century (Mehrotra et al 2012; Kannan and Raveendran 2009; Srivastava 2016).Item Gender-Based Wage Discrimination in Indian Urban Labour Market: An Assessment(Springer, 2019-08) Padhi, BalakrushnaThis study attempts at verifying the pattern of the wage gap between gender in India’s urban labour market using NSS 50th (1993–1994), 61st (2004–2005), and 68th (2011–2012) Employment and Unemployment Surveys. The wage gap between sexes in the urban labour market is verified among the regular and casual workers over a period of two decades (1993–1994 to 2011–2012). Using Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition as well as Recentered Influence Function (RIF) quintile decomposition analysis, it is observed that there is a male bias in wages in both the categories, namely, regular and casual workers. Female workers are also at a disadvantaged position via-a-vis male counterparts, and there is considerable disparity exists with regards to employment and earning standard between sexes. The decomposition exercise shows that the role of the discrimination component effect is larger than that of the endowment component across the regular and casual workers. Controlling for characteristic homogeneity, it is observed that female workers have a systematic wage disadvantage against their male counterparts in the urban labour market of India.