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Rosa Abraham

Azim Premji University
rosa.abraham@apu.edu.in

Rosa Abraham is an economist interested in issues relating to India’s labor market. She teaches at Azim Premji University where she is a part of the School of Arts and Sciences and is involved with the Centre for Sustainable Employment. Her research focuses on informal work and women’s employment, with particular interest in issues at the intersection of labor statistics and women’s work. At the Centre for Sustainable Employment, she has co-authored the Centre's flagship reports, The State of Working India. Her most recent work looks at employment trajectories in the labor market examining the role of the informal sector.

Posts by Rosa Abraham

Marriage and motherhood: Rethinking women’s employment in rural contexts

While “child penalties” for women in the labour market are well-documented in high- and middle-income countries, how the events of marriage and childbirth play out for women in largely informal ec...

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Improving survey quality using paradata: Lessons from the India Working Survey

To improve the credibility of survey data, several monitoring tools are used by researchers – such as ‘paradata’, which have gained prominence with the growth of computer-aided interviewing. In ...

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Pandemic as a lens: Identifying and addressing livelihood vulnerabilities

Based on the findings from a phone survey of around 5,000 Indian workers, the authors explore the impact of the Covid-19 economic lockdown on two forms of livelihood vulnerabilities: employment insecu...

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