Upadhya, Carol and RoyChowdhury, Supriya
(2025)
Urban Migration, Skilling, and Employment in the New Service Economy.
In:
Policy Recommendations for Sustainable Development, Vol.2 edited by Shailesh Nayak.
NIAS Policy Briefs
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Springer, Singapore, pp. 1-7.
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| Abstract: |
The Skill India policy (2015) aimed to address India’s skill deficit and to connect unemployed youth to the job market. However, the research reported in this chapter revealed that most skill training programmes offer mainly short-term courses that produce insufficiently skilled workers and provide access mainly to low-wage, low-end and insecure service sector employment. While many training organisations aim to place rural youth in urban jobs as a means of poverty alleviation or economic mobility, the study showed that available service sector jobs did not provide sufficient income to sustain migrant workers in the city. The policy brief proposes several interventions, such as better designed courses leading to more sustainable employment, or a period of hand-holding after job placement enable youth to find a foothold in urban life and employment. |
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Book Chapter
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| Subjects: |
School of Social Sciences > Urbanization
School of Social Sciences > Sociology |
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Schools > Social Sciences |
| Date Deposited: |
13 Jun 2025 06:14 |
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13 Jun 2025 06:14 |
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-... |
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http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/2948 |
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