Turning the spotlight on the urban poor
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Turning the spotlight on the urban poor

The Hindu  

The India Employment Report 2024 by the Institute for Human Development and International Labour Organization poses questions on the trickle-down effect of benefits to the working class in the backdrop of a 5.4% average real economic growth, from 2015-16 to 2022-23. Hence, an analysis of income and employment trends of slum dwellers would reveal the prospects of economic mobility and decent work for the poor in urban India. Other major occupations in slums were skilled or semi-skilled labour work, and people as employees in private organisations, and owning petty businesses or small shops. The highest decline in real income is observed for construction and related work, followed by petty business or small shop and government service in 2019 as compared to 2012. Hence, the higher income in urban areas compared to rural India does not delineate the urban poor’s economic mobility and quality of work.

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Urban labour market shows improvement as unemployment declines in September quarter
1 month ago

Urban labour market shows improvement as unemployment declines in September quarter

Live Mint  

India's urban labour market demonstrated steady gains in July-September, with rising workforce participation and a slight dip in unemployment, according to recent data. Urban unemployment rate, a key indicator of joblessness, fell to 6.4% in July-September, down from 6.6% a year prior, as per data from the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation on Monday. The Labour Force Participation Rate …

India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment
1 month, 2 weeks ago

India’s cities, expanding hubs of precarious employment

The Hindu  

Abhishek is just 25 years old. Precarious nature of work in urban India In recent decades, there have been fundamental shifts in India’s urban workforce and city development. Moreover, 92% of the 61 million jobs created after the economic liberalisation of 1991 were informal, indicating the precarious state of employment in India’s labour market. Structural imbalances favour organisations that control …

Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Employment scenario in India grim, says ILO report

The Hindu  

India’s youth account for almost 83% of the unemployed workforce and the share of youngsters with secondary or higher education in the total unemployed youth has almost doubled from 35.2% in 2000 to 65.7% in 2022, as per the India Employment Report 2024 released by the International Labour Organisation and the Institute of Human Development here on Tuesday. Paradoxical improvements …

Sadhguru Writes: Urbanise Rural India To Stem Migration
1 year, 7 months ago

Sadhguru Writes: Urbanise Rural India To Stem Migration

ABP News  

Sadhguru writes: Some time ago, I was in Mumbai. If ten million extra people come into each of our cities, no one can live well in these places. If we want to stem migration, we must urbanise rural India. There must be at least eight to ten million 15-16-year-olds in the country right now who think they are educated but …

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market
2 years, 1 month ago

Why India can’t afford women staying out of labour market

Live Mint  

Separately, Oxfam India’s India Discrimination Report 2022 revealed that wages are lower for women overwhelmingly because of discriminatory practices and only slightly due to lack of education and work experience. Besides, a significant number of qualified women were found unwilling to join the labour market due to ‘family responsibilities’, said the report. A recent Bloomberg Economics analysis estimated that though …

How Modi’s India Has Succeeded in Bringing Down Poverty in Rural Areas
2 years, 5 months ago

How Modi’s India Has Succeeded in Bringing Down Poverty in Rural Areas

News 18  

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This oft-cited quote is attributed to Lord Kelvin or William Thomson, who also theorised a completely new temperature scale. The poverty line has been disaggregated state-wise and separately for rural and urban areas. In one of the most cited essays on poverty, Lipton and Ravallion note: “The highest incidence and severity …

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?
2 years, 9 months ago

Women@Work: Working Women Up Globally but Down in India. Is There a Way Out?

News 18  

My daughter who is in Grade 1 was in her Hindi online class and while doing the akshar श्र they were asked to draw a श्रमिक, without hesitation she drew me. If you look at data from the 1990s till date, across most countries, women’s participation in the labour force has increased. Our rate is significantly lower than Sri Lanka …

A hazy picture on employment in India
2 years, 10 months ago

A hazy picture on employment in India

The Hindu  

The two important indicators of structural transformation in any economy are rates of growth and changes in the structural composition of output and the workforce. Also, the unemployment rate in the female labour force in rural areas is far lower than the male labour force, whereas the opposite holds true in urban areas. This is despite the fact that the …

Data | Jobs increase in rural India in September
3 years, 2 months ago

Data | Jobs increase in rural India in September

The Hindu  

In India, 8.5 million new jobs were gained in September 2021, increasing the total employment to 406.2 mn from 397.8 mn in August, according to CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey. There was a significant improvement in the quality of employment as salaried jobs increased in both rural and urban regions. Click to remove AMP mode High rural share As many …

India’s women and the workforce
3 years, 9 months ago

India’s women and the workforce

Hindustan Times  

Why is women’s employment declining in India? The thrust of the predominant explanations is that women are dropping out of paid work or the labour force either because of fear of sexual violence outside the home; or fear of being stigmatised by the community that might see their work as a marker of low status, i.e. Women’s education has increased …

Only 7% of urban Indian women have paid jobs
3 years, 10 months ago

Only 7% of urban Indian women have paid jobs

The Economist  

Listen to this story. The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, a local research firm, put the share of urban women in or looking for work at just 7% in November. Their answers to questions like “Should men have more right to a job than women?” are more egalitarian than poll responses in Indonesia, where fully 53% of women pursue work …

The crisis of poverty and migration in the SAARC region
4 years, 2 months ago

The crisis of poverty and migration in the SAARC region

The Hindu  

Migration in South Asia has been characterised by an “unprecedented exodus”, according to a recent report by the South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication, titled “Migration in South Asia: Poverty and Vulnerability”. But the report says that nearly 48 per cent of the population in Sri Lanka could be urban, depending on the classification of what is urban, peri-urban or …

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