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Title

Non-agricultural employment in India : trends and prospects / editors, Pravin Visaria, Rakesh Basant.

Publication

New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Visaria, Pravin, 1937-2001.
• Basant, Rakesh.
• Indian Society of Agricultural Economics.
• Gujarat Institute of Development Research.

Description

370 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• A dynamic non-agricultural sector in rural areas is increasingly being seen as a major source for generating employment in India. It is also considered to be an avenue for decentralised industrial development which can, in turn, reduce the burden on the over-stretched urban infrastructure. Indeed, during the last two decades, the share of employment in this sector has consistently increased.
• This volume is a timely empirical contribution to our understanding of this process of economic diversification in rural India. Taking into account all the available evidence, it constitutes the first extensive and up-to-date analysis of the nature, trends and determinants of rural non-agricultural employment in India.
• Further, it examines the inter- and intra-state variations in the levels of such activity and reviews the methodological issues involved in studying economic diversification at various levels of spatial disaggregation. Appearing at a time when India is in the process of re-evaluating and altering its development strategies, this book will be invaluable for policy-makers and social scientists interested in issues relating to employment, development strategies and economic diversification.

Subject

• Geschichte 1960-1989
• Rural poor > Employment > India
• Labor supply > India
• Labor supply
• Rural poor > Employment
• Ländlicher Raum
• Beschäftigung
• Kongress
• Plattelandsbevolking
• Arbeidsmarkt
• Werkgelegenheid
• nonfarm employment
• trend
• econometric model
• survey
• demographic aspect
• rural worker
• agricultural worker
• rural women
• labour force participation
• labour supply
• labour demand
• occupational structure
• employment status
• self employment
• seasonal employment
• agricultural employment
• rural public works
• unemployment
• poverty
• urbanization
• regional disparity
• statistical table
• emploi non agricole
• tendance
• modèle économétrique
• enquête
• aspect démographique
• travailleur rural
• travailleur agricole
• femmes rurales
• taux d'activité
• offre de main-d'oeuvre
• besoins en main-d'oeuvre
• structure de l'emploi
• statut dans l'emploi
• travail indépendant
• travail saisonnier
• emploi agricole
• travaux publics ruraux
• chômage
• pauvreté
• urbanisation
• disparité régionale
• tableau statistique
• empleo no agrícola
• tendencia
• modelo econométrico
• encuesta
• aspecto demográfico
• trabajador rural
• trabajador agrícola
• mujeres rurales
• tasa de actividad de mano de obra
• oferta de mano de obra
• necesidad de mano de obra
• estructura del empleo
• situación ocupacional
• trabajo a cuenta propia
• empleo estacional
• empleo agrícola
• obras públicas rurales
• desempleo
• pobreza
• urbanización
• desigualdad regional
• cuadros estadísticos
• India
• Indien
• India
• Inde

Genre/Form

• proceedings.
• bibliography.
• map.
• rapport de réunion.
• bibliographie.
• carte géographique.
• informe de reunión.
• bibliografía.
• mapa.

Note

• Selected papers from a seminar held March 29-31, 1989 in Ahmedabad and co-sponsored by the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics and the Gujarat Institute of Development Research.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / V. M. Dandekar -- 1. Non-Agricultural Employment in India: Problems and Perspective / Pravin Visaria and Rakesh Basant -- 2. Labour Use in Rural India: A Study of Spatial and Temporal Variations / A. Vaidyanathan -- 3. The Sectoral Distribution of Workers in India, 1961-91 / Pravin Visaria -- 4. Rural Non-Agricultural Employment in India: A Review of Available Evidence / Rakesh Basant and B. L. Kumar -- 5. Determinants of Rural Non-Agricultural Employment / D. Jayaraj -- 6. Changes in the Structure of Rural Workforce in Uttar Pradesh: A Temporal and Regional Study / Ajit Kumar Singh -- 7. Employment Diversification in an Agriculturally Developed Region: Some Evidence from Rural Kheda, Gujarat / Rakesh Basant and Harish Joshi -- 8. Some Aspects of Non-Agricultural Employment in Rural India: Evidence at a Disaggregate Level / S. Mahendra Dev -- 9. Inter-Regional Variations in Non-Agricultural Employment in Rural India: An Exploratory Analysis / Jeemol Unni.

ISBN

• 8170364191
• 9788170364191
• 0803991916
• 9780803991910

LCCN

94022748

OCLC

• ocm30978852
• 30978852
• SCSB-2044744

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library