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Sharp divergence in rural and urban unemployment

Weekly estimates are relatively stable and reasonably reliable but turn out to be systematically higher than the 30-day moving average measure

Can Kumbh mela help alleviate Uttar Pradesh's unemployment problems?

Less than six months ago we witnessed 30 million Kanwariyas trek the Himalayas to fetch Ganga water for their local Shiv temples

An invisible hand

Labour Bureau data show that male labour participation rate, which had been falling steadily from 2011-12 till 2015-16, rose in 2016-17

Entrepreneurship or salaried employment?

This growth of self-employed entrepreneurs notwithstanding, the most preferred employment of the average young educated man and woman is that of being a salaried employee

How the growth of self-employed entrepreneurs is a bitter-sweet success

While the distribution of self-employed entrepreneurs could be a bit better, their growth in the face of falling formal jobs is a redeeming feature - a bitter-sweet success

Labour statistics disappoint in October: Unemployment rate rises to 6.9%

Month records worst unemployment rate in two years

Next steps on low female labour participation rates

Is lack of safety at the workplace for women a factor that impacts the participation of women in the labour markets?

The bitter truth of female labour participation

If only adult men work, but adult women don't, we are much worse off compared to a situation where both adult men and women work

The nation's interest in Kerala

Kerala will re-build itself fairly soon. When it does, it will need more than those 4 million migrants. It will be re-built by the state, by non-government organisations and by private initiatives

Employment growth rates fell after 2011-12

During the five years from 2012-13 through 2016-17, the average increase in employment was a measly 0.75 per cent per annum

Large no of Kanwariyas on pilgrimage points towards an unemployment problem

An estimate of 30 million kanwariya pilgrims this year may not be too far off the mark. What does this number tell us about the employment situation in the country?

Labour force rises but not employment

The monthly series of 2017 suggest that sequentially, both labour force and employment should rise in August. If they don't, we must worry

Creating jobs: Remove roadblocks to investment and labour market efficiency

In the four years 2012-13 through 2015-16, growth in real investments dropped sharply to 1.5% a year. Correspondingly, growth in employment dropped to 1.7%. Growth in GVA was below 1%

Catching up with the employment rate

India along with Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have a much lower employment rate compared to their respective expected values given their per capita GDP levels

Growth? Or, skewed growth?

The CMIE-BSE unemployment measures have shown the severe strain the economy was subjected to following demonetisation. This was a shock that led to job losses and loss in the hope of getting jobs

More surveys, less jobs

The enterprise survey initiated by the government is not what NITI Aayog's Task Force on Improving Employment Data had proposed

Fixed-term contractual employment: A small move in the right direction

The new fixed-term contractual employment scheme stipulates that such workers will get the same benefits as regular workers

Primitive explanations of primitive assumptions

Prof. Pulak Ghosh and Dr. Soumya Kanti Ghosh provided explanations to what I called as primitive assumptions in their work on payrolls data

Improving employment data: Task force suggestion will take years to execute

The Task Force on Improving Employment Data was remiss in not mentioning this low-hanging fruit. All its suggestions will take years to execute

A small recovery in the labour force holds out a hope

Employment during the September-December 2017 period was 0.58 million higher than it was in the preceding Wave of May-August 2017