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Moving in or dropping out? India's female migrants and urban labour force integration

How can Skill India improve outcomes for female trainees?

Policy brief State and Women's Economic Empowerment

Authors

Soledad Artiz Prillaman

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Rohini Pande

Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic Growth Center, Yale University

Charity Banda

Researcher, Government of Zambia
  • Skill India is a government programme which includes an initiative aimed at training and linking young women to employment opportunities.
  • Not only are female participants of the programme less likely to accept a job offer than a male counterpart, but they are even less likely to accept one that involves some form of migration.
  • This brief uses existing data to begin to understand this issue, drawing on data from Odisha where females are more likely to accept job offers.
  • It is found the reason for this success in Odisha is several-fold and correleates to better support for participants.
  • The data from this project will be used as part of a randomised control trial aimed at understanding what interventions could make female participants more likely to accept roles that involve migration.

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