Endangered Freedom to Decent Life amidst Economic Insecurity: Plight of Worker Households in Jalandhar's Sports Good Industry

Jain, Varinder (2020): Endangered Freedom to Decent Life amidst Economic Insecurity: Plight of Worker Households in Jalandhar's Sports Good Industry.

Abstract

Rooted in Senian notions, this study operationalises the concept of freedom by way of examining individual’s attainment of various freedoms viz. freedom to be free from hunger, freedom to be free from morbidity and the freedom to be free from illiteracy; necessary for ensuring the enjoyment of a decent life. Besides revealing the incidence of inter- and intra-household differences in the attainment of various freedoms, the study also examines the endangering of various freedoms with respect to the level of economic insecurity suffered by the household. It diagnoses further, through the application of ‘Ordered Probit Regression’ approach, the relative vulnerability of females in worker households. The domain of the study belongs to the households of workers seeking livelihoods in Jalandhar’s sports good industry.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Freedom, Decent Life, Wageworkers, Ordered Probit Regression
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General > J01 - Labor Economics: General; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J31 - Wage Level and Structure ; Wage Differentials

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