According to the Economic Survey 2014-15 Vol. 1 & 2 (Please click Vol1 and Vol2 to access): • Estimates of employment growth and its elasticity relative to economic growth vary widely. However, tentatively, one might say that employment growth and elasticity have declined in the 2000s compared to the 1990s. Since labour force growth is in excess of employment growth,…
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Please click here to access the Achievements and Initiatives in the Ministry of Labour and Employment as per the Press Information Bureau’s Press Note dated 8 September, 2014. According to the study titled: Trends in Rural Wage Rates: Whether India Reached Lewis Turning Point by A Amarender Reddy (2013), International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT/CGIAR) (please click here to download) • …
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According to the NSS report no. 551 (66/10/6) titled Status of Education and Vocational Training in India (66th Round), July 2009-June 2010, published in March 2013, MoSPI, http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/nss_report_551.pdf: In the present survey, NSSO collected data on educational particulars like educational level attained – both general and technical, current attendance in educational institution, type of institution, vocational training…
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The graph below shows that, compared to the year 2004-05, the Work Participation Rate (per 1000 person), according to the principal and subsidiary statuses taken together, during 2005-06 for males did not change in rural areas but decreased by 1 percentage point in urban areas. However, for females there was a decline of 2 percentage…
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Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment has released the results of the second annual employment & unemployment survey conducted in the country for the period 2011-2012. During the survey, data has been collected from a sample of 1,28,298 households, out of which 81,430 households are in the rural sector…
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Key findings of the Global Employment Trends 2011: The challenge of a jobs recovery, International Labour Organization,http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@publ/documents/publication/wcms_150440.pdf are as follows: India specific points • The report notes that the largest reductions in poverty continue to be recorded in eastern Asia, with poverty rates in China expected to fall to around 5 per cent in 2015. Poverty rates…
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According to the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector–NCEUS (2007), Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector, http://nceus.gov.in/Condition_of_workers_sep_2007.pdf The India Labour Market Report 2008, which has been prepared by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and Adecco Institute, London, http://www.macroscan.org/anl/may09/pdf/Indian_Labour.pdf show: Self-Employment Casual Labour Market Population Not in Labour Force Unemployment…
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