Description
This volume examines the role of higher education and employment in economic development in emerging economies like India. It looks at the contours of higher education policies and the labour market dynamics to explore ways to address joblessness and income disparity.
The book discusses themes such as quality and access to higher education, the shift towards private investment in higher education, demographic dividend and joblessness among youth, social and income inequalities, labour migration and employment, and the participation of women in the workforce, among others. It provides insights into the challenges relating to employment generation in the industrial sector. It also offers solutions and policy measures to move towards sustainable growth, better employment opportunities in various sectors of industries, and human development.
Rich in empirical data, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of education, economics, development studies, sociology, gender studies, and social and economic policy.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Prelude
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 Higher education and Employment in India: An introduction
Part 1: Higher education participation, employment, and income inequality
2 Participation in higher education: The role of institutions
3 Gender gaps in employment preferences among university graduates in India
4 Educational expansion and income inequality in India
Part 2: Quality and the role of higher education institutions in economic development
5 Indian higher education: Introspecting the state of quality
6 The role and impact of academics’ societal engagement
7 The roles of agricultural universities in serving regional economic development
Part 3: Demographic dividend, joblessness, and informality
8 Harnessing India’s demographic dividend: The way forward
9 Jobless growth in India: Employment–unemployment of educated youth
10 Agricultural exports and informal sector in India: A macroeconomic perspective
Part 4: Labour migration and female employment
11 Industrial and occupational distribution of migrant workers in India
12 Understanding the decline in women’s employment in rural India
13 Low female labour force participation: evidence from urban Kerala
Part 5: Employment generation in the manufacturing sector
14 BRICS–EU global value chains trade and manufacturing employment
15 Employability of FDI in India’s manufacturing firms
16 Technology and labour in India’s manufacturing
17 Imported inputs and labour in India's manufacturing
Appendix
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