Outputs
-
Research in progress.
Project last updated on: 4 Aug 2020.
Nearly 80% of all workers in India are daily wage earners or self-employed in the informal sector (ILO, 2018), a challenge in the path to inclusive development in the country. These workers constitute a large and particularly vulnerable section of India’s population, especially in urban areas, that has no access to public safety nets and is highly susceptible to loss of work/income due to economic and health shocks. An all-pervasive crisis like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is likely to hit this section of the population very hard, especially due to and following a nationwide lockdown that risks their lives and livelihoods. Yet, we have very little understanding so far on what the immediate and long-term impact of the pandemic on this particularly vulnerable demographic group could be.
This project aims to fill this gap by studying:
This study is important and timely, and is expected to have the following impacts:
The study is an extension of an ongoing randomised control trial, in which we are studying the impact of an app-based hyperlocal employer-employee matching service that was offered to both husbands and wives (in one treatment arm) and also the wives’ friends (in another treatment arm), relative to couples who were not offered this service (control group), with subsequent implications on women and their spouses’ employment outcomes, income, autonomy, gender attitudes etc.
Project last updated on: 4 Aug 2020.