Labor markets globally are the most inefficient markets of all. The matching of supply and demand is constrained by huge asymmetries and subjectivity of information around skills, hiring plans, experience, investment plans, etc. India's labor market magnifies this inefficiency with labor laws that have not been updated to reflect the future of India's capabilities and confidence.

Labor policy, at heart, is all about people, their dreams and aspirations. Hopefully these research efforts represent our contribution to an important debate. Research papers include Temp Salary Primer, White Paper on India’s Labor Market Temporary Staffing and Employment Outlook.

India Labour Report 2005: This report makes the case for temporary staffing as a solution to reduce India’s unemployment. It examines the global background of the temporary staffing industry and Indian labour Laws.

India Labour Report 2006: This report ranks Indian states by the Labour Ecosystem (Labour Demand, Labour Supply and Labour Laws). It also takes a closer look at the current labour regime and its implications for unemployment

India Labour Report 2007: This report takes a close look at the youth unemployability issue and highlights the implications of our poor HRD regime. It also divides the skill deprived population into three different buckets of unemployability; last mile (need 6 months of repair), interventional (1 year of repair) and structural (2 years of repair). It estimate the costs and upsides of this repair and also suggests the reform agenda for skill development. We bring to light the key issues that exist today and how this creates an opportunity for temporary staffing. The report has an in-depth analysis into the temporary staffing industry both globally as well as within India. Lastly, the TeamLease recommendations that are the changes to be made towards Labour reforms.

Temp Salary Primer, the first of its kind in India, aims to fill the current vacuum in temporary staffing salary information for employers and job seekers. The comprehensive data collected across different cities helps both the job seekers and the employers arrive at the best match of talent, experience and compensation. This annual report is customized to the location, across various functions, experience levels and industries.

This document aims to be a resource for first job seekers on how to approve the job search process. It has various sections that have been crafted to help candidates substantially improve their odds of finding the job they want.

TeamLease Employment Outlook is a quarterly survey of business and employment expectations among private sector employers across various cities and industries in India.

The Employment Outlook seeks to anticipate the pulse (present) and mood (future) of companies around their labor market decisions. It aims to build an archive of data over an extended period of time that will allow the culling of labor market wisdom around industries, regions, and functions. In doing this it hopes to fill a void around the lack of trend information on labor markets in India, that creates huge uncertainty for decision making in public policy, corporate hiring and individual career decisions.