103
CHAPTER 7
ON THE IMPACTS OF
GLOBALISATION ON PUBLIC
EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN
SECURITY IN INDIA: A LONG-RUN
ANALYSIS
Partha Gangopadhyay, Agung Suwandaru and
Walid Bakry
ABSTRACT
Public employment in India is often viewed as a source of job security. Hence,
public employment seems to propel human security in India away from pov-
erty and social exclusion. In the recent work, a signifcant attention has been
accorded to understand how globalisation has impacted on job security and
thereby human security in many developing countries. The literature revolves
around two opposing effects of globalisation on the human security in a coun-
try: frstly, the effciency hypothesis posits that globalisation tends to reduce
the size of the government of a country to enable the country to attain compar-
ative advantage for gainfully trading in the global economy. A reduction in the
capacity of the government is argued to lead to a decline in public employment
and, hence, a decline in human security with rising globalisation. Secondly,
the compensation hypothesis argues that the size of government, and hence
public employment, will increase with globalisation mainly to suitably man-
age a domestic economy in a complex global setting with an increased role of
government for creating social stability and social security. Depending on the
New Frontiers in Confict Management and Peace Economics: With a Focus on Human Security
Contributions to Confict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Volume 29, 103–114
Copyright © 2021 by Emerald Publishing Limited
All rights of reproduction in any form reserved
ISSN: 1572-8323/doi:10.1108/S1572-832320210000029007