India’s Occupational Transformation: A Tale of Two Escalators Sonalde Desai Pallavi Choudhuri

India’s rapid expansion in higher education has coincided with stagnant growth in skilled, white-collar jobs, leading to hyper-competition and underemployment among graduates. Using panel data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), this chapter tracks 12,084 young men between 2004–05 and 2011–12 to assess whether...   Read More