Globalization, labor markets and inequality in India / Dipak Majumdar and Sandip Sarkar.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [342]-351) and index.

1. Introduction - An Overview of Globalization, Reforms and Macro-economic Developments in India Part 1: Trends in Poverty, Inequality, Employment and Earnings 2. Poverty, Growth and Inequality in the Pre- and Post-reform Periods and the Patterns of Urbanization in India - An Analysis for All-India and the Major States 3. Trends in Employment and Earnings 1983-2000 4. Accounting for the Decline in Labor Supply in the Nineties Part 2: Regional Dimensions 5. Some Implications of Regional Differences in Labor Market Outcomes in India (Ahmad Ahsan and Carmen Pages) 6. Trend in Regional Disparities in Poverty, Incidence--an Analysis Based on NSS Regions Part 3: Employment and Earnings in the Major Sectors 7. Agricultural Productivity, Off-farm Employment and Rural Poverty; the problem of Labor Absorption in Agriculture 8. Employment Elasticity in Organized Manufacturing in India 9. Dualism in Indian Manufacturing -- Causes and Consequences 10. Growth of Employment and Earnings in the Tertiary Sector Part 4: Labor Market Institutions 11. Regulations, Enforcement and Adjudication in Indian Labor Markets: Origins, Consequences and the Way Forward (Ahmad Ahsan Carmen Pages and Tirthankar Roy) 12. Strengthening Employment and Social Security for Unorganized Workers (Philip O'Keefe and Robert Palacios) 13. Epilogue Conclusions.

India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. This book examines the aspects of post-reform India and discerns the changes and trends which these developments have created.