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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.
List of contents
List of figuresList of tables List of contributorsForeword Prelude Acknowledgements List of abbreviations1 Higher education and Employment in India: An introduction
Part 1: Higher education participation, employment, and income inequality2 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 development5 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
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About the author
Ram Kumar Mishra is a Senior Professor, ONGC Subir Raha Chair, and NLC Chair at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India, and is a graduate of the International Management Program, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has been a Fellow of the British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat. He has taught at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, and was a Visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L' Hommes, Paris; University of Technology Mara, Malaysia; and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the UN Task Force on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. He has handled assignments for the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Trade and Commerce, and Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, Government of India. He has been a management consultant to several organisations, including DFID, Deloitte, Adam Smith Institute, ADB, and Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad, India. He is a member of the editorial boards of many international and national journals.
Sandeep Kumar Kujur is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Earlier, he was with the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a Visiting Faculty to the Department of Business Management, Central University of Odisha, Koraput. He holds a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include industrial economics, economics of technological change, and labour and development economics.
K. Trivikram holds an MA and a PhD in Economics and is a Professor at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India, with close to four decades of experience in teaching, training, and research. He has designed and conducted a good deal of management development programmes for central and state-level public enterprises for senior and middle-level executives, civil servants, and corporate executives. His areas of interest include business environment, public policy, corporate governance, and CSR.
Summary
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.
