Employment Trends in India

Pradeep Apte, Medha Deshpande and Vishal Gaikwad

Review of Market Integration, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 77-103

Abstract: This article explores the trends in labour force, employment and unemployment from 2000 to 2012 using NSSO data in major Indian states. Most of the states experienced acceleration in employment growth when economic growth was slow during the first quinquennium of the twenty-first century. These trends have reversed during the second quinquennium. The deceleration in growth of employment was driven mainly by decline in female employment in rural areas in almost all the states, and the withdrawal from labour market could not be fully explained in terms of its correlates. This article highlights the need to improve the data on employment and increase its frequency, and also suggests the measures. JEL: J21

Keywords: Labour force; size of labour force; structure of labour force; female labour; employment size and structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0974929218790828

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