The much-awaited report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey 2017-18 has highlighted the difficult job situation with 6.1% of India’s labour force, and 17.8% of young people in the labour force reporting to be unemployed. In 2017-18, around 45% of regular workers earned less than ₹10,000 per month, and about 12% earned less than ₹5,000 per month. In rural areas, …
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 …
New Delhi: Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the jobs debate in India has heated up once again. Data from the past two quinquennial employment surveys of the National Sample Survey Office show that between 2004-05 and 2011-12, the net annual addition to regular jobs was roughly two-and-a-half million. The share of regular workers with PF benefits may have …