Higher Education Employment and Economic Development in India: Problems, Prospects, and Policies

✍ Scribed by Ram Kumar Mishra, Sandeep Kumar Kujur, K. Trivikram

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 381
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Prelude
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1 Higher education and employment in India: An introduction
Part 1 Higher education participation, employment, and income inequality
Chapter 2 Participation in higher education: The role of institutions
Chapter 3 Gender gaps in employment preferences among university graduates in India
Chapter 4 Educational expansion and income inequality in India
Part 2 Quality and the role of higher education institutions in economic development
Chapter 5 Indian higher education: Introspecting the state of quality
Chapter 6 The role and impact of academics’ societal engagement
Chapter 7 The roles of agricultural universities in serving regional economic development
Part 3 Demographic dividend, joblessness, and informality
Chapter 8 Harnessing India’s demographic dividend: The way forward
Chapter 9 Jobless growth in India: Employment–unemployment of educated youth
Chapter 10 Agricultural exports and informal sector in India: A macroeconomic perspective
Part 4 Labour migration and female employment
Chapter 11 Industrial and occupational distribution of migrant workers in India
Chapter 12 Understanding the decline in women’s employment in rural India
Chapter 13 Low female labour force participation: Evidence from urban Kerala
Part 5 Employment generation in the manufacturing sector
Chapter 14 BRICS–EU global value chains trade and manufacturing employment
Chapter 15 Employability of FDI in India’s manufacturing firms
Chapter 16 Technology and labour in India’s manufacturing
Chapter 17 Imported inputs and labour in India’s manufacturing
Appendix
Index