International Research Fellowship Program: Social Protection in the Informal Sector: The Links Between Social and Economical Insecurity in Urban India

0301856坎特国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。 该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 这个奖项将支持七个月的研究奖学金博士保拉L。Kantor与印度阿赫梅达巴德古吉拉特邦发展研究所的Jeemol Unni博士合作，这项研究将探讨印度城市非正规工人的社会（即疾病、洪水、粮食不安全）和经济（即非正规工作、低技能）不安全感之间的联系。 它是在非正规工人的社会保障方案框架内制定的，目的是让人们了解这一群体所面临的经济和社会不安全的范围、它们之间的相互联系以及这两种情况在不同工作类型和社会群体中的差异。 这些知识将有助于制定社会保障方案，以最有效的方式满足这些工人的需求。 PI将收集定性和定量数据，以评估不安全因素及其联系。 定性数据将对各类不安全感之间的联系进行深入评估。 这将与关于工作特点、个人能力、获得支助机制和生产性资产的机会、生活条件、健康状况、人口统计以及生命周期和危机事件经历的更一般化的量化数据挂钩。 将以工人个人为分析单位;将对他们进行抽样，以代表选定城市非正规部门的主要工种。 预计更大的经济不安全将增加社会不安全的经历，经济上更不安全的工作类型，如临时工和计件工人，更难以满足基本需求，更容易受到间歇性事件的影响，造成挫折。 社会身份会影响这些经历，妇女和低种姓工人的经历更强烈。 这项研究的结果将对政策和方案的制定产生重大影响。

0301856KantorThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a seven month research fellowship by Dr. Paula L. Kantor to work with Dr. Jeemol Unni of Gujarat Institute of Development Studies in Ahmedabad, India.This study will examine the links between social (i.e. Illness, floods, food insecurity) and economic (i.e. irregular work, low skills) insecurities among informal workers in urban India. It is set within a framework of social protection programs for informal workers and aims to provide knowledge of the range of economic and social insecurities faced by this group, their interlinkages, and variations in both these things across work types and social groups. Such knowledge will assist in developing social protection programs that meet these workers' needs in the most effective manner. The PI will collect both qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate the insecurities and their linkages. Qualitative data will provide an in depth assessment of the connections between the types of insecurities. This will be linked to more generalized quantitative data on work characteristics, individual capacities, access to support mechanisms and productive assets, living conditions, health status, demographics and experiences of life cycle and crisis events. Individual workers will be the units of analysis; they will be sampled to represent prominent work types in the informal sector of a selected city. It is expected that greater economic insecurity will increase experiences of social insecurity, with more economically insecure work types, such as casual laborers and piece rate workers, having greater difficulty meeting basic needs and being more exposed to intermittent events that create setbacks. Social identity will intervene in these experiences, with women and low caste workers experiencing them more intensely. The results of this study will have a substantial impact on policy and program development.