Dr Jajati Keshari Parida

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Economics

Email:  jajatieco@gmail.com; jkparida@uohyd.ac.in

Mob. +91-9266459378; +91-8837563226

Education: 

Ph. D. (2013), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

M.A. (2006), Utkal University, Bhubaneswar

Teaching Areas: Econometrics and Microeconomics

Research Interest: Migration, Employment, Poverty, and Human Development

Academic Profile:

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=RfWJkh4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Scopus:https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56338021400

RG profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jajati-Parida-2

Work Experience:

1.     Associate Professor (Since July 7, 2022), School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, India.

2.     Assistant Professor, Department of Economic Studies, Central University of Punjab, Punjab, India, from August, 2015 to July, 2022.

3.     Deputy Director, National Institute of Labour Economic Research and Development (NITI Aayog, Govt. of India) from July, 2013 to August, 2015.

4.     Assistant Professor (Adhoc), College of Vocational Studies (University of Delhi) from January, 2011 to May, 2013.

Consultancy Experience:

1.     Free Consultancy to write the Chapter “Employment in Karnataka: Performance and emerging challenges” for The Economic Survey (2022), State Planning Board, Government of Karnataka.

2.     Consultant (Research and Policy) for one month (1st to 30th September, 2015) at Wadhwani Foundation (Palo Alto, U.S.) to write a white paper on “Strategies for Creating Jobs in India”

3.     Consultancy project for four months (September-December, 2017), Asian Development Bank, Manila. Title of the study was “Employment and Skills in the Three States of the East Coast Economic Corridor”

4.     Consultancy for the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS), New Delhi for generating “Data on Non-farm informal workers” for the Ford Foundation project for a period of Three Months.

5.     Consultancy for the Population Council of India for a period of one Month “GFEMS Data Collection and Analysis”

6.     Consultancy for the Swiss Development Cooperation for preparing Synthesis Report of R4D Projects: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Industrialization while Realizing the Demographic Dividend

Academic Awards:

1.     Outstanding Research Award, 2019 (from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda)

2.     L.K. Deshpande Young Labour Economist Award, 2022 (from the Indian Society of Labour Economics)

Memberships:

Life Member: The Indian Econometrics Society; Indian Society of Labour Economics; and Odisha Economic Association.

Working Group Member: NORKA (Fourteenth Five Year Plan, 2022-2027), State Planning Board, Govt. of Kerala.

Research Publications:

Journal Articles

1.     Reducing Rural Poverty through Non-farm Job Creation in India (2022). The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 65 (1), Pp. 137-160.

2.     Employment and Earning Differentials among Vocationally Trained Youth: Evidence from field studies in Punjab and Haryana in India (2022), Millennial Asia. Vol. 13 (1). Pp. 142-172. Sage

3.     Mehrotra, S., & Parida, J. K. (2021). Why Human Development Should Precede Economic Growth in the States. Economic and Political Weekly, 56(38), 54-61.

4.     Stalled Structural Change Brings an Employment Crisis in India (2021). The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 64 (2):281–308 (Springer).

5.     Construction labour migrants and wage inequality in Kerala (2020), Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 22, No.2, Pp. 414-442 (Springer)

6.     Low-skilled emigration, remittances and economic development in India (2020), Migration and Development, Pp. 1-32 (online first: Taylor & Francis Group)

7.     Employability and Earning Differentials Among Technically and Vocationally Trained Youth in India (2020), The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 63, No. 2, Pp. 1-24 (Springer)

8.     Remittances, Investment and New Emigration Trends in Kerala (2020), Review of Development and Change, Vol. 25, No. 1, Pp. 5–29 (Sage).

9.     Why is the Employment Outcome of Vocationally Trained Youth so Poor?: Evidence from Selected Districts of Punjab and Haryana (2020), IASSI Quarterly: Contributions to Indian Social Science, Vol 39, No 1, Pp. 111-134.

10.  Health Conditions, Medication and Hospitalization Preferences of Elderly in Kerala (2019), Indian Journal of Human Development, Indian Journal of Human Development, Vol. 13, No. 3, Pp. 308-324 (Sage).

11.  Structural Transformation, Population Ageing and Elderly Labour Force Participation in Kerala, India (2019), IASSI Quarterly: Contributions to Indian Social Science, Vol 38. No. 1, Pp. 59-88.

12.  Why is the labour force participation of women declining in India? (2017), World Development, Vol. 98. Pp. 360-380 (Elsevier).

13.  MGNREGS, Rural Employment and Distress Migration: A study in Odisha (2016), Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 18. No. 1. Pp. 17-39 (Springer).

14.  Regional Estimates of Poverty and Inequality in India, 1993-2012 (2016), Social Indicators Research, Vol. 127 No. 3. Pp. 1249-1296 (Springer).

15.  Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Rural India: Evidence from NSS Data, (2015) Indian Economic Review, Vol. 50, No. 1. Pp. 79-104 (Springer).

16.  Determinants of Seasonal Migration in India (2015), Manpower Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1. Pp.69-80

17.  Growth and Prospects of Non-farm Employment in India: Reflections from NSS data (2015), Journal of Industrial Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 2. Pp.154-168

18.  Explaining Employment Trends in the Indian Economy: 1993-4 to 2011-12, (2014) Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX, No 32. Pp.49-57.

19.  Economic Well-being of Migrants and Non-migrants Households in States of India: Does Remittances Matter? (2014) Migration and Development, Vol. 3, Issue 1. Pp.38-53 (Taylor & Francis Group).

20.  Determinants of Migration and Remittance in India: Empirical Evidence (2011), Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 54, No.3. 561-578 (Springer).

Articles in Edited Volumes:

1.     Declining labour-force participation in India: Does education and training help? (2021) Chapter 5 in Mona Khare’s Edited Volume ‘India Higher Education Report 2020’, Publisher: Routledge.

2.     Unexplored Facets of Female Migration (2020), Chapter 25 in Irudaya Rajan’s Edited Volume ‘Handbook of Internal Migration in India’, Publisher: Sage India.

3.     Migration and Urbanization (2020), Chapter 32 in Irudaya Rajan’s Edited Volume ‘Handbook of Internal Migration in India’, Publisher: Sage India

4.     Employment potential of migrant workers in Meghalaya: an empirical exploration (2019), Chapter 9, in Virginious Xaxa, D. Saha, and R. Singha’s Edited Volume: ‘Employment and Labour Market in North-East India: Interrogating Structural changes’, Routledge. South Asia Edition, India.

5.     Rural-Urban Migration, Urbanization, and Wage Differentials in Urban India (2019), Chapter 7, in Jayanthakumaran K., R. Verma, G. Wan, and E. Wilson’s Edited Volume, ‘Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships. Springer (open), Singapore

6.     India: Rising trends of international and internal migrations (2018), Chapter 14, in Anna Triandafyllidou’s Edited Volume: ‘Handbook of Migration and Globalization’ Edward Elgar. Cheltenhan (UK) and Northampton (MA, USA).

7.     Explaining Employment Trends in the Indian Economy: 1993-4 to 2011-12, (2015), in P. Balakrishnan Edited Volume: Section IV-Chapter 21, ‘Economic Growth and Its Distribution in India’, Publishers: Orient BlackSwan.

Working/Occasional Papers:

1.     India’s Employment Crisis: Rising Education Levels and Falling Non-agricultural Job Growth (2019), CSE Working Paper 4, 1-22, Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

2.     Why a Jobs Turnaround Despite Slowing Growth? (2014), Occasional Paper No 1/2014, Institute of Applied Manpower Research, New Delhi.

3.     Higher Wages, Cost of Separation and Seasonal Migration in India, (2012) Working Paper No. 28, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

4.     Determinants of Migration and Remittance in India: Empirical Evidence, (2011) Working Paper No. 272, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

5.     Spatial Heterogeneity and Population Mobility in India (2010), Working Paper No. 23, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

6.     Determinants of Migration and Remittance in India: Empirical Evidence (2011),   proceedings of the National Seminar on Survey Results of NSS 64th & 65th rounds (page 381-94), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, New Delhi.

Research Projects:

Projects Completed

1.     As Principal Investigator: A Study on In-migration, Informal Employment and Urbanization in Kerala ((Funding Agency: Evaluation Division, State Planning Board, Government of Kerala, with amount 9.57 lakh).

2.     As Co-Principal Investigator: Development of Indices for Scheduled Castes, Other backward Classes, Persons with Disabilities and Senior Citizens (Funding Agency: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. of India (2013), with amount 6.5 lakh); year of completion 2015

3.     As Principal Investigator: Identifying High Growth Sectors with Greater Employment Opportunities in India:  Medium-term Prospects (Funding Agency: ASSOCHAM, with amount 3.5 lakh); year of completion 2014

On-going Projects: NIL

Research Guidance:

1.     PhD Scholars: 04 (03-Awarded, 01-Submitted)

2.     M. Phil. Scholars: 05 (All Completed)

3.     Research Guidance (Master Dissertation): 31

Invited Lectures/Special Talks as Resource Person

1.     On “Extraction and Use of NSSO unit level data in STATA” during the workshop on “NSSO data using SPSS and STATA” conducted by the A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna during  23rd to 28th April, 2022.

2.     On "Labour market outcome of technically and vocationally trained youth in India" on 21st  February 2022 (Monday), during the Five-day online training programme on Skills and Entrepreneurship Development from 21-25 February 2022".

3.     On "Employment and Unemployment Trends in India: Evidences from HH and Enterprise Survey" on 17th January 2022 (Monday), during the "One-week online training programme on Research Method in Labour Studies from 17-21 January 2022 at the V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, Noida.

4.     On “Employment Centric Research based on NSSO Rounds” during the On-line (15 hours credit course) on 'Labour and Migration during the time of Globalization' at the Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS), Patna held during 14th-17th  December, 2021

5.     On “Migration Centric Research based on NSSO Rounds” during the On-line (15 hours credit course) on 'Labour and Migration during the time of Globalization' at the Tata Institute of Social Studies (TISS), Patna held during 14th-17th  December, 2021

6.     On “Impact of Covid -19 on Employment in India” at the Two-day National Webinar on " Impact of Covid -19: A Black Swan of Indian Economy" held during on March 27 -28, 2021. This Webinar was organized by the Department of Economics, Providence Women's College, Calicut & Department of Economics, Mahatma Gandhi Government Arts College.

7.     On “Use of SPSS for Sampling Techniques” during One Week National Interdisciplinary Workshop Titled "Research Methodology in Social Sciences: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods" under PMMMNMTT, held during 22nd - 25th March, 2021 at the Department of Sociology, Central University of Punjab.

8.     On “Quantitative Technique for Social Research” during One Week National Interdisciplinary Workshop Titled "Research Methodology in Social Sciences: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods" under PMMMNMTT, held during 22nd - 25th March, 2021 at the Department of Sociology, Central University of Punjab.

9.     On “Extraction and Use of National Sample Survey (NSS) data” during the Online Training Session on Extraction and Use of National Sample Survey (NSS) data conducted by the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Education, JAIN (Deemed - to -be University), Bangalore, India on 24th July, 2021.

10.  On “Extraction and Use of Secondary Data Set –NSSO” during the Faculty Development Programme on “Innovation in Research and Sampling Design” conducted by the Centre for Research in Social Sciences and Education, JAIN (Deemed - to -be University), Bangalore, India on 18th May, 2021.

11.  On "Youth Employment Challenges and Role of Vocational and Technical Training in India" as the lead speaker on 7th September 2020 (Monday) in the "Three Day Online Training Programme on Skills and Entrepreneurship Development" during 7 to 9 September 2020, at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida

12.  On "Youth Employment Situation and Policy in India" as the lead speaker on 26 August 2020 (Wednesday) in the "Three Day Online Training Programme on Labour Market and Employment Policies" during 24-27 August 2020, at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida

13.  On “Measuring Informal Economy and its Characteristics by using PLFS Data” at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute on 21.7.2020 in the “Online Training Programme on Informality, New Forms of Work and Social Protection” conducted by during July 20-22, 2020.

14.  On “Labour Market Outcome of Technically and Vocationally Trained Youth in India” at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute on 13.7.2020 in the “Online Training Programme on Skills and Entrepreneurship Development” conducted by during July 13-15, 2020.

15.  On “Granger Causality Using VAR and VECM” in Goa Institute of Management (GIM) Virtual Workshop on “Time Series and Panel Data Modelling: Using E-views and STATA” organized by the Goa Institute of Management, GOA during June 12-14, 2020.

16.  On “Creating Jobs in India: Issue and Challenges” Special Lecture Organized by the College of Vocational Studies (University of Delhi), New Delhi on 21st January, 2020.

17.  On “NSS data Extraction and Econometrics Modeling using STATA”, in the ICSSR sponsored 10 Days Research Methodology Course for PhD scholars in Social Sciences, at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh (2019).

18.  On “Use of Sampling Techniques in Social Science Research” in the Capacity Building Programme for Social Science Faculty Members, organized by the Department of Economic Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, 2019

19.  On “Bi-variate data Analysis in Social Science Research” in the Capacity Building Programme for Social Science Faculty Members, organized by the Department of Economic Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, 2019

20.  On “Structural Transformation, Skill Issues and Employment Growth in India” in the “Orientation Programme” organized by the Human Resource Development Centre, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra Jammu & Kashmir (2019).

21.  On “Introduction to Stata and Basic statistical Analysis using Stata” in the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching programme” at the Teaching Learning Centre, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India, 2019

22.  On “Correlation and Regression Analysis using Stata” in the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching programme” at the Teaching Learning Centre, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India, 2019

23.  On “Limited Dependent Variable Modelling” in the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching programme” organized by the Faculty Development Centre, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra Jammu & Kashmir, 2019.

24.  On “ Labour Market Issues and Challenges in India” in the workshop “ Indian Economy and Sociaty in 21st Century” under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching programme” at the Teaching Learning Centre, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India, 2019

25.  On “Structural Transformation, Skill Issues and Employment Growth in India” in the Human Resource Development Centre, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra Jammu & Kashmir (2019)

26.  On “Use of Quantitative Methods in Political Science Research” in the workshop on Philosophical Foundations of Political Science and International Relations” under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching programme” at the Teaching Learning Centre, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India, 2019

27.  On “Time Series Modelling and Panel data Analysis using E-views and Stata” in the Capacity Building Programme for Social Science Faculty Members, organized by the Centre for Economic Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India, June, 2017

28.  On “Time Series Analysis and Co-integration and Error correction Mechanism” in the ICSSR sponsored 10 Days Research Methodology workshop organized by the GIRI Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow, UP, India, April, 2017

29.  On “Time Series Analysis and Co-integration and Error correction Mechanism” in the ICSSR sponsored 10 Days Research Methodology workshop organized by the GIRI Institute of Development Studies, Lucknow, UP, India, April, 2016

30.  On “Extraction and use of NSS Unit level data  using Stata”  Two Days Workshop on Methodological Aspects & usage of NSS unit level data, organized by the Department of Economics and Public Policy, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, March, 2015

31.  On “Use of NSS data in Social Science Research”, in the ICSSR sponsored 10 Days Research Methodology workshop organized by the Centre for Social Work, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, April, 2015.

Conferences/Seminar/Workshops Details:

1.   Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) held in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee; during 11-13th April, 2022. The titled of the paper was “Constraints on the labour market trajectory of youth and growth of NEET in India?”

2.     Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) held in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee; during 11-13th April, 2022. The titled of the paper was “Harnessing demographic dividend before it is lost forever in India”

3.     Paper presented at the National Seminar on “Covid-19 in India & Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, Responses & Way Forward” at the A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna (during 14-15th March, 2022). The paper “Constraints on the labour market trajectory of youth and growth of NEET in India” was presented as a speaker in the panel session under the sub-theme “Labour market challenges: Issues of employment & sectoral impacts”.

4.     Paper Presented at the Workshop on “Kerala and World Economy” at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala during 4th and 5th February, 2021. The tile of the paper was “International migration and labour Supply Behaviour of Return migrants: The case of Kerala”

5.     Paper presented at International Conference on "Recent Advances in the Field of Economics, Commerce and Finance" organised by the Amity School of Economics & Amity College of Commerce and Finance, Amity University, Jharkhand during 7-8, September, 2021. The Title of the paper was “What Factors drive Outmigration: Evidence from Rural Bihar”

6.     Paper presented at Two Day International Conference on “Economic Development: Role of Higher Education Institutions in Employment” organized by the Institute of Public Enterprises, Hyderabad, India during 10-11 December, 2019. The tile of the Paper was “Generating Employment in India: Issues and Challenges”

7.     Paper presented at the 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) held in the Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab; during 7-9th December, 2019. The titled of the paper was “Declining Labour Force Participation in India: Does Education and Training Help?

8.     Paper presented at the 54th Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES) held at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra Jammu & Kashmir during 7-9 March, 2018. The titled of the paper was “Labour market outcomes of young women in Delhi metro-city, India: Does skill or beauty matter?”

9.     Attended the UGC-sponsored One Month Orientation Programme at the Human Resource Development Centre, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, December-January 2017-18.

10.  Attended the ICSSR-sponsored Two Week capacity Building Programme for Social Science faculty Members during 18-31, May, 2018 at the Department of Economic Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda.

11.  Attended the workshop on the Maple soft Product overview- Level 1 with Maple soft and Binary Semantics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, June 2017.

12.  Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Migration and Diasporas: Emerging Diversities and Development Challenges, 22-23 March, 2017, New Delhi, India. The titled of the paper was “Migration and the Left behind Elderly in Kerala”

13.  Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Migration and Diasporas: Emerging Diversities and Development Challenges, 22-23 March, 2017, New Delhi, India. The titled of the paper was “The Good and the Bad in Emigration and Remittance flows: The Kerala Experience”

14.  Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES) held in the National Institute for Scientific and Educational research, Bhuabaneswar; during 24- 26 December, 2016. The titled of the paper was “Economic Growth and Human Development in India: Are they causally connected?”

15.  Paper presented at the Seminar, Labour Markets in Eastern Himalayas and North-East India: Changing patterns and Emerging Issues, organised by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India, 29-30 April, 2016. The titled of the paper was “Employment Potentials of Migrant workers in Meghalaya: An empirical Exploration”

16.  Paper presented at the International Conference on “Internal Migration, Urbanization, Poverty and Inequality in Asia”, Siem Reap, Cambodia, during 5th to 7th November, 2014, Organised by the Asian Development Bank.   The titled of the paper   was “Rural to urban migration and wage differentials in Urban India”.

17.  Paper presented at the International Workshop “Urbanization and Migration in Transnational India: Work and Family Life from a Welfare Perspective”, Bangalore, during 5th to 7th March, 2013, Organised with the collaboration of Swedish South Asian Network (SASNET), Nordic Centre in India (NCI), Lund University and Institute for Social and Economic Change   (ISEC).   The   titled   of   the   paper   was “Migration, Employment   and   Household Consumption in India”.

18.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES) held in the University of Pondicherry, Pondicherry; during 1st to 3rd March, 2012.  The titled of the paper was “Migration, Remittance and Household Consumption Behaviour in India”.

19.  Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) held in the Karnataka University, Dharwad, Karnataka; during 17- 19th December, 2010. The titled of the paper was “Determinants of Migration and Remittance in India: An Empirical Evidence”.

20.  Attended  the  Programme  on  Quantitative  Research  Methods  in  Labour  Studies,  Specific Focus on Migration Issues,‟ during 5th -16th January, 2009 at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida.

21.  Attended the Short-term Training Programme on Methods and Approaches in Research on Migration Issues, during 1st -5th December, 2008 at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.