emerging tendencies during the post-reform period /
E.T. Mathew.
Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
2006.
1 online resource (166 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index.
Introduction -- Trends in employment -- Unemployment and underemployment -- Casualisation -- Feminisation of labour force -- Informalisation of employment -- Emerging opportunities for employment : the case of IT and IT-enabled services with special reference to business process outsourcing -- Summary and conclusions.
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This book critically examines the emerging trends in employment and unemployment in the Indian Economy during the post-reform era. Using the latest round of NSS data, the author studies the impact of these structural economic reforms on:. - Employment generation, with reference to different and competing sectors-rural / urban; agricultural / non-agricultural; organised / unorganised. - Unemployment and underemployment, in terms of the apprehension that economic reforms lead to loss of employment. -Casualisation of employment- that is, a belief that reforms lead to increase in the proportion of.