Page 13 - Unemployment In India

Year in Review: From job data to growth woes, India's 'shrinking' feeling

A list of events and policy decisions that made the biggest impact on Indian economy during the year 2019

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

Govt's bid to provide employment via MSME jobs portal fails to take off

The ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) has begun an investigation into why placements through the portal have not picked up, sources said

No reason to show that employment has come down: Govt tells Lok Sabha

The Labour and Employment Minister also said the government is implementing various schemes for generating more employment

New govt to ensure 80% jobs for locals: Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari

Koshyari made the announcement while addressing the joint sitting of the state legislature at Vidhan Bhawan in which he laid out the new government's broader agenda for the coming years

India's urban unemployment rate drops to 9.3% in Jan-Mar 2019: Govt data

For women, the UR was at 11.6 per cent during the reported period as against 12.8 per cent during April-June 2018.

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

Labour migration works

AP law reserving jobs for locals is a bad precedent

Labour migration works

AP law reserving jobs for locals is a bad precedent

Finance, IT lead in job creation, capital-intensive sectors in cuts: CARE

The report shows that job growth, which had picked up by 2016-17, slumped in the two succeeding years - 2017-18 and 2018-19

Best of BS Opinion: Job crisis, price rise, India's weak policies, and more

Whether it is the employment crisis or foreign companies leaving India, the hyphen between the two is weak policies

The jobs crisis worsens

Economic slowdown is only partially to blame for the rise in unemployment. The principal reason is weak policies

Modi govt's doctrine of governance behind economic slowdown: Manmohan Singh

India's large economy can not be directed at will or managed by managing colourful headlines, wrote the former PM

RTI practised by govt: Chidambaram's dig over economic data 'suppression'

Chidambaram's remarks come after a media report cited the latest consumption expenditure survey by the NSO to claim that consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18

Opposition rally to protest against economic slowdown, agri crisis on Dec 1

Congress has already started its mass agitation in all districts of the country from November 5, which will continue till November 15 against 'rising unemployment, sinking economy and farm distress'.

Unemployment rate a poor indicator

India is reverting to the high unemployment rates that were seen during the first three quarters of 2016

Unemployment rate in India rose to a three-year high of 8.5% in Oct: CMIE

Unemployment was worse only in the pre-demonetisation period, according to the data, at 9.6% in August 2016.

A first since independence: Employment down by 9 mn in 6 yrs, says report

Ever since NSSO's Periodic Labour Force Survey was published (which showed that unemployment in India was at a 45-year high, there have been debates on the state of employment in India

Corporate India had an extraordinary 2018-19, but their real wage rate fell

In last 6 years, wages have grown at an average 10% a year within a narrow range of 9-12% per year. During this period, sales have grown at an average annual rate of 6% in wider range from -3% to +17%

Low-skill jobs dominate

May-August 2019 is also the second consecutive complete Consumer Pyramids Household Survey to have recorded a sequential increase in employment