# Research and credits
Prepared 25 October 2026. Sources below are reference leads and have **not** been independently fetched or re-verified during this build. No claim of a fresh source audit is made.

- Amy Edmondson (1999), Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams, Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.2307/2666999
- Ryan & Deci (2000), Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being, American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.68 (The website also links to a related SDT review: https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327965PLI1104_01.)
- International Labour Organization: https://www.ilo.org/ (informal work and labour statistics portal; specific statistics intentionally omitted)
- Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India: https://www.mospi.gov.in/

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