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What 2020 did to India’s inequality?
Rahul Lahoti , Mrinalini Jha , Amit Basole
On the misclassification of employment status data in the ILOSTAT Database
In this piece we highlight a methodological problem with the ILOSTAT data on “Employment by status in employment” which gives the proportions of workers engaged in self-employment and wage employment across countries. These cross-country data appear to have mis-categorised casual wage workers as self-employed workers in the Indian case.