The Skills Space in Informal Work: Insights from Bangalore Slums.

We develop a framework for mapping and analysing informal worker skills using microdata from nearly 1500 workers residing in the slums of Bangalore, India. Alongside econometric modelling, we employ machine learning techniques to explore relationships between skills crowdsourced from respondents. We...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 57; no. 10; pp. 1662 - 1690
Autores principales: Sengupta, Nandana, Gaurav, Sarthak, Evans, James
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2021
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          Sengupta, Nandana
          Gaurav, Sarthak
          Evans, James
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          School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
          Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management Affiliate Faculty, Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India
          Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
          Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
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        Bengaluru (India)
        Slums
        Social skills
        Gender
        Wages
        Labor market
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