India’s employment crisis: rising education levels and falling non-agricultural job growth

Mehrotra, Santosh and Parida, Jajati K. (2019) India’s employment crisis: rising education levels and falling non-agricultural job growth. Working Paper. Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.

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Abstract

Falling total employment is an unprecedented trend seen from 2011-12 to 2017-18. Due to a decline of employment in agriculture and manufacturing and slow growth of construction jobs, the process of structural transformation, which had gained momentum post-2004-5, has stalled since 2012. Mounting educated youth unemployment, and lack of quality non-farm jobs have resulted in an increase of the disheartened labour force. Though the share of regular and formal employment increased marginally due to growth of formal jobs in the private sectors, the share of informal jobs within government/public sector increased. A dominant share of jobs is still generated by micro and small units of the unorganized sectors without any formal or written job contract. In both government and private sectors the number of contract jobs (with less than a year’s contract) is on the rise post 2011-12. Not surprisingly, real wages have not increased in either rural or urban areas.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Authors: Mehrotra, Santosh and Parida, Jajati K.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Employment, India’s employment, India’s employment crisis, Education Levels, Non-agricultural Job, Youth unemployment, formal jobs,Indian economy
Subjects: Social sciences > Economics
Divisions: Azim Premji University > Research Centre > Centre for Sustainable Employment
Full Text Status: Public
URI: http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/2119
Publisher URL: https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/wp-content...

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