Youth Unemployment, Education and Job Training: An Analysis of PLFS Data in India

Panchanan Das () and Swarup Roy ()
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Panchanan Das: University of Calcutta
Swarup Roy: University of Calcutta

Chapter Chapter 5 in Reimagining Prosperity, 2023, pp 59-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper highlights the changes in the unemployment rate across different age cohorts among young people in India due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study observes that the youth unemployment rate increased at a much higher rate in urban areas both for male and female youth during the initial phase of pandemic. To understand the severity of the effects of pandemic on unemployment across different age groups among the youth, this study enquires into the nature and causes of unemployment among them. The probit estimates of unemployment function for the youth reveals that the likelihood of youth being unemployed is less in upper age cohorts within the young age range. An inverse relationship is observed between general education and employment among the youth in the Indian youth labour market.

Keywords: Indian labour market; Skill mismatch; Youth unemployment; Demographic dividend; Tertiary education; Vocational training; Technical education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7177-8_5

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