Facilitating Job Search for Female Garment Workers
in Tamil Nadu

Thanks to the generous support of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School,  this summer I will conduct exploratory research for a project addressing information and bargaining power constraints which might be deterring female migrants working in India's garment manufacturing sector from demanding improved working conditions or switching to better employers.

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My fieldwork will inform the design for a study seeking to answer:

 

1. Do information frictions and employer monopsony power inhibit female migrant garment workers from demanding better working conditions or leaving jobs that harm their health/safety?

2. What additional support can empower women to act on this information?

 

I will be posting regular updates on the project throughout the summer to this blog.