Page 2 - Rural Unemployment

Employment recovery expected in July

But, the recovery was incomplete because the employment rate, which is the working age population that is employed, never repaired with its pre-Covid levels

Hope floats on rural recovery

The recent improvement in consumer sentiment is almost entirely a rural India story

Making MGNREGA work

Shortcomings such as delayed payments must be fixed

Labour turns to agri, construction as manufacturing fails to create jobs

Manufacturing accounted for 40 million jobs in 2019-20. In the first quarter this dropped to 24.6 million, implying a loss of over 15 million manufacturing jobs

Recovery on thin ice as India finds itself in a crater on employment front

Economic recovery either stopped in the third quarter or it stopped showing up in recovery in employment

Slowing economy drove urban unemployment to four-quarter high in Q4FY20

The spike in the rate could also be attributed to a slightly higher willingness among women to participate in the job market

Female workforce shrinks in economic shocks

Given that men continue to be considered as the principal earning member of a household, women are unlikely to accept poor quality jobs

Employment numbers for rural, urban India show economic recovery still weak

Fiscal 2019-20 ended with an employment rate of 39.4%. It fell to 27.2% in April 2020 but, it recovered 300 basis points to reach 30.2% in May

Employment rate targeting must be at the heart of Indian policymaking

The labour participation rate in September at 40.7% was 199 basis points lower than the average labour participation rate of 42.7% in 2019-20

Engineers, teachers, accountants: Biggest job loss among salaried employees

Employment in the category of white collar professional employees and other employees has been rising steadily since 2016 when the survey began tracking them

Labour conditions worsening. Expect job losses in August

In August, barring an exceptional spike in one week, the labour participation rate has been slipping

Two-thirds of migrants either back in cities or wish to return, says survey

The study found that 29 per cent of migrants, who had left for villages, are now back in cities, while 45 per cent want to return to cities

Govt to provide jobs to 6.7 mn migrant workers by pooling official projects

Will frontload expenditure of Rs 50,000 crore in next 125 days towards 25 areas of work in 116 districts spread across six states

Demand v reality: A sorry state of affairs under MGNREGA in a Covid-19 year

Instead of the promised 100 days of work, average work provided stood just shy of one-fifth of it in this financial year till June 9

Tattering social fabric, economic slowdown hurting December labour demand

Preliminary and partial data for December indicate that labour participation is recovering from the November fall, but perhaps, not enough to make November look like an aberration

Urban jobless rate down to 9.3% in Q4FY19, lowest in at least four quarters

The fall in the unemployment rate, by weekly status methodology basis, came as employment among regular wage employees and a section of self-employed workers increased during the period

Hope survives in urban India

After a rapid fall from the early-June peak, the unemployment rate has been rising steadily

Decent work

India is among the worst performing countries in this respect in the Asia-Pacific region

Ensure job creation with focus on rural unemployed: Pranab Mukherjee

He also said the current state of non-performing assets in the banking system is a "major concern"