Regular Salaried Employment Opportunities in India: Nature, Access and Inclusiveness

Mamgain, Rajendra P.; Tiwari, Shivakar

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“…Regular salaried employment is relatively more stable form of employment with lowest incidence of working poor. Over half of the regular salaried jobs are in informal sector and largely bereft of any social security (Mamgain and Tiwari, 2018 ). This categorization throws up some revealing gaps in the available nature of employment to workforce across its gender and social group.…”

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“…They are thus outside the ambit of employer–employee relationship and vulnerable to income fluctuations and outside the ambit of social security such as tenurial and income security (Kapoor 2020 ). Those working as regular salaried workers about 60 per cent among them do not have any job tenurial security and basic minimum social security (Kapoor 2020 ; Mamgain and Tiwari 2018 ). More so, over half of the workforce in regular salaried employment work in informal enterprises, at abysmally low wages and poor working conditions (Mamgain and Tiwari 2018 ).…”

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Understanding labour market disruptions and job losses amidst COVID-19

Mamgain

2021

J. Soc. Econ. Dev.

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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown on labour market in India. By using the data of centre for monitoring Indian economy (CMIE)’s consumer pyramids household survey (CPHS), the paper analyses the magnitude and nature of job losses and consequent unprecedented rise in unemployment across gender, social group, occupations during April–June 2020. It finds widespread job losses in labour market with some sections of the society, including small traders, self-employed, migrant workers, daily wage labourers, youth and women being worst affected, who mostly work in the informal sector of the Indian economy. Agriculture sector acted as a sponge by absorbing surplus labour during the times of COVID-19, which was being gradually vacated earlier over the years due to several well-known reasons. The rate of recovery in labour market has been comparatively much slower in case of salaried jobs, youth employment, particularly in rural areas and with elementary education. The economic consequences such disruptions on employment front were even much more serious as a very low percentage of households reporting improvement in their incomes. The most worrying aspect is that though the return to normalcy may take some time, there has been general recessionary trends in employment in India, which have been visible much before the COVID-19 crisis. The policy measures need to be extraordinary in such difficult times, focusing on securing employment and welfare of affected workers through sound and effective social protection programmes along with a major drive for promoting labour-intensive economic activities such as micro- and small enterprises, extension of employment security to poor urban households and skilling/reskilling of labour force to work in post-COVID-changed situations.

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Understanding labour market disruptions and job losses amidst COVID-19

Mamgain

2021

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“…Regular salaried job is considered as the most desirable form of employment. It provides tenurial security with written job contract and other social security benefits such as paid leaves, medical benefits, insurance, and gratuity and provident funds to the workers (Mamgain & Tiwari, 2018). Thus, the regular salaried wage job is the most preferred job in the labour market.…”

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Employment Characteristics of Regular Salaried Employees in Urban Maharashtra

Umap,

Jain

2023

Journal of Social Inclusion Studies

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Studies on the labour market in India are increasingly debating the issue of caste-based discrimination in employment. However, there are few studies addressing the issue of regular salaried employees in urban labour market, except in the context of reservation policy. Due to the reservation policy, the issue of the representation of the schedule caste, scheduled tribes and other backward class has been addressed to a particular extent. In this context, this article attempts to analyse the status of schedule caste in employment and unemployment, participation in different occupations and industries groups, job security and social security benefits in urban labour market Maharashtra. The descriptive analysis clearly shows that a significant employment difference exists between regular salaried employees belonging to Hindu High Caste (HHC) and Schedule Caste (SC). One of the reasons that comes out for the substantial gap is the higher level of unemployment rate among educated SCs as compared to HHCs. The SCs have less representation in the high earning occupations, but contrary to this, they have high representation in the low wage-earning occupations. The share of informal SCs is high as compared to HHCs in the private sector in the state and NSS regions during 2004–2005 to 2018–2019.

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Employment, Its Quality and Inequality

Mamgain

2019

India Studies in Business and Economics

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Regular Salaried Employment Opportunities in India: Nature, Access and Inclusiveness

Cited by 4 publications

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Understanding labour market disruptions and job losses amidst COVID-19

Understanding labour market disruptions and job losses amidst COVID-19

Employment Characteristics of Regular Salaried Employees in Urban Maharashtra

Employment, Its Quality and Inequality

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