This is an ongoing project.

This study conducted by Yoshifumi Usami and Arindam Das attempts to evaluate the methodology used by different agencies that collect and publish data on wage rates in rural India. It also analyses data on wage rates and wage earnings from the village studies conducted as part of the Project on Agrarian Relations in India. The study further attempts to explain diverse arrangements or modes of wage employment, the variation in wages paid for different agricultural operations, agricultural wage differentials between different States of India, and gender-based wage disparities.

The following research articles and chapters were also published based on this research:

1. Usami, Yoshifumi (2011), “A Note on Recent Trends in Wage Rates in Rural India,” Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1. view article
2. Usami, Yoshifumi (2012), “Recent Trends in Wage Rates in Rural India: An Update,” Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1. view article
3. Das, Arindam, and Usami, Yoshifumi (2017), “Wage Rates in Rural India, 1998–99 to 2016–17,” Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2. view article
4. Das, Arindam (2020), “Trends in Male and Female Wage Rates,” in the book on Women and Work in Rural India.
5. Das, Arindam (2020), “The Gender Gap in Wage Rates: Exploring the Role of Female Labour Supply with Evidence from PARI Villages,” in the book on Women and Work in Rural India.
6. Usami, Yoshifumi, Das, Arindam, and Swaminathan, Madhura (2020), “Methodology of Data Collection Unsuited to Changing Rural Reality: A Study of Agricultural Wage Data in India,” Review of Agrarian Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2. view article