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Title: EXPLORING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN SKILLS ACQUIRED AND INCOME EARNED ON THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE WOMEN WORKING IN URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR IN THE CITY OF TAJ: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Authors: Sonia Goel , Reshmi Ganguly and Shreyansh Jain
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Sonia Goel1 , Reshmi Ganguly2,, Shreyansh Jain3 1. Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi. 2,. Corresponding Author, Associate Professor, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi. 3. M.A (P), Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi.
MLA 8 Goel, Sonia, et al. "EXPLORING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN SKILLS ACQUIRED AND INCOME EARNED ON THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE WOMEN WORKING IN URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR IN THE CITY OF TAJ: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 3, Mar. 2024, pp. 897-914, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i03.016. Accessed Mar. 2024. APA 6 Goel, S., Ganguly, R., & Jain, S. (2024, March). EXPLORING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN SKILLS ACQUIRED AND INCOME EARNED ON THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE WOMEN WORKING IN URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR IN THE CITY OF TAJ: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 9(3), 897-914. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i03.016 Chicago Goel, Sonia, Reshmi Ganguly, and Shreyansh Jain. "EXPLORING THE LINKAGE BETWEEN SKILLS ACQUIRED AND INCOME EARNED ON THE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF THE WOMEN WORKING IN URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR IN THE CITY OF TAJ: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 3 (March 2024), 897-914. Accessed March, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i03.016.
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ABSTRACT: Women, when endowed with economic resources and having control over meaningful decisions, tend not only to benefit themselves but also their households and communities. Access to training can enhance the income-earning ability of women, thereby leading to an increase in her ability to question and use resources for betterment of life and to make rational decisions. Using data from a primary survey of working women in the urban informal sector in Agra, this paper examines the role of skills acquired through training, amount of income earned the interaction term of high income coupled with skills acquired in determining economic empowerment. The index of economic empowerment is constructed using eleven indicators. We have further examined if economic empowerment of self-employed women who have acquired training to do intricate work is significantly different from the women who work for wages. The main results of our paper show that higher income earned does lead in enhancing economic empowerment of women in our sample. However, the interaction term, that is training acquired along with higher incomes earned plays a significant role in determining economic empowerment. We also find that the self-employed women are more economically empowered than the women who work for wages. Given the results of the paper, one of the policy recommendations is to create training camps to impart knowledge and skills to women at a relatively younger age which will boost employment opportunities and can help women earn higher incomes which are a dire need. This will ensure greater economic empowerment.

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