The geography of employment in 21st century India
6 years, 1 month ago

The geography of employment in 21st century India

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Where do Indians find regular jobs easily? A Mint analysis of the disaggregated census jobs data released earlier this year shows a striking divergence in the availability of regular non-farm jobs across the country. Districts with a relatively high share of regular jobs were clustered in the extreme south, and in a narrow strip extending along the western coastline across the country till the extreme north, the data shows. As the accompanying map shows, districts with a high share of regular non-farm jobs have added more such jobs over time, while districts in the rest of the country have either regressed or added very few non-farm jobs between 2001 and 2011, accentuating the divide between the west and the east. Most districts in some of India’s most youthful and populous states, such as Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, witnessed either a decline or stasis in the share of regular jobs between 2001 and 2011.

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India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment
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India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment

The Hindu  

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Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report
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Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report

The Hindu  

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The rise of rural manufacturing
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The rise of rural manufacturing

The Hindu  

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A hazy picture on employment in India
2 years, 11 months ago

A hazy picture on employment in India

The Hindu  

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Data | Jobs increase in rural India in September
3 years, 3 months ago

Data | Jobs increase in rural India in September

The Hindu  

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‘Farm to Factory’: Employment for Marginal Farmers, Farm Labourers Need of the Hour in Rural India
4 years ago

‘Farm to Factory’: Employment for Marginal Farmers, Farm Labourers Need of the Hour in Rural India

News 18  

In farming, size matters. Farming is a seasonal affair, not a full-time job so the second job option mostly required by the small, marginal farmers and farm labourers in their nearby areas that’s why new industrial investment should be attracted in rural and backward areas by offering special incentives. Special incentives are being offered to develop industrial corridors and clusters …

The missing middle aggravates India’s jobs conundrum
4 years, 3 months ago

The missing middle aggravates India’s jobs conundrum

Live Mint  

Any country sees genuine progress when it creates jobs. McKinsey Global Institute in a recent report titled India’s turning point—An economic agenda to spur growth and jobs points out that India has around 600 large firms which earn a revenue of more than $500 million per year. There aren’t enough large firms in India because of India’s missing middle of …

A road map to strengthen India’s rural economy | Analysis
4 years, 7 months ago

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Hindustan Times  

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Misses in manufacturing
4 years, 10 months ago

Misses in manufacturing

The Hindu  

ONE of the highlights of the latest Economic Survey is its optimism that India will be able to create 40 million well-paid jobs in manufacturing by 2025. According to the recent Periodic Labour Force Survey, manufacturing employment in India in 2017-18 was only 60.2 million, which was 12.8 per cent of the country’s total workforce in that year. According to …

Why do migrants throng Delhi and Mumbai for work?
5 years, 5 months ago

Why do migrants throng Delhi and Mumbai for work?

Live Mint  

Beyond improved finances and upward mobility, the base expectation of a migrant worker is full-time work. Census 2011 data shows that only 63% of internal migrants who wanted to work were full-time workers. Among the larger states, the share of workers who found full-time work ranged from 70% to 80% in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, undivided Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. In …

Employment generation remains the toughest job
5 years, 6 months ago

Employment generation remains the toughest job

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The greatest challenge that the Narendra Modi-led government faces in its second term is that of job creation. At the same time, the share of workers with a regular job was also higher than that recorded in any other official jobs survey in the past. As a Mint analysis based on data from annual reports of companies and …

Employment generation remains the toughest job
5 years, 6 months ago

Employment generation remains the toughest job

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The greatest challenge that the Narendra Modi-led government faces in its second term is that of job creation. At the same time, the share of workers with a regular job was also higher than that recorded in any other official jobs survey in the past. As a Mint analysis based on data from annual reports of companies and …

Work undone: How India fails its young job seekers
5 years, 7 months ago

Work undone: How India fails its young job seekers

Al Jazeera  

As India goes to polls, Al Jazeera looks at its intensifying unemployment crisis and the politics that surround it. But just today an interviewer told me I’m too qualified,” said the 24-year-old, who is a Dalit – one of the former “untouchable” caste who still face segregation and social exclusion in India. The politics of unemployment In India’s ongoing national …

It’s a great leap backward on the employment front in India’s rural areas
5 years, 11 months ago

It’s a great leap backward on the employment front in India’s rural areas

Live Mint  

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For equitable growth, India must unthink the urban
6 years ago

For equitable growth, India must unthink the urban

Hindustan Times  

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Opinion | India needs better jobs, not just more of them
6 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | India needs better jobs, not just more of them

Live Mint  

It is an essential input for economic development, creating new markets, new industries and productivity-enhancing innovation. It is also a political economy headache, narrowing the space for policy manoeuvring and creating political incentives for counterproductive palliative measures—think subsidies, rigid labour laws and quota creep. Second, India’s employment elasticity—the percentage change in employment associated with one percentage point change in economic …

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