A Note on Unemployment and Its Measurement in India

Sripad Motiram ()
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Sripad Motiram: University of Massachusetts

A chapter in Perspectives on Inclusive Policies for Development in India, 2022, pp 285-296 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper sheds light on unemployment in India by drawing on literature that takes the connections between poverty measurement and the measurement of unemployment seriously and develops distribution sensitive measures. I first summarize the insights from this literature and discuss a distribution sensitive measure of unemployment from my previous work. I then present estimates of unemployment for India and various states using the above measure and an official measure (Current Weekly Status). These estimates are high both at the all-India level and for several states and union territories. Using decomposition analysis, I show that younger people contribute substantially and disproportionately to overall Indian unemployment. These findings underscore the gravity of unemployment in India, particularly among educated youth.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0185-0_14

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