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India’s post-pandemic jobs recovery masks fall in working hours, weak demandIndian workers are working fewer hours weekly compared to pre-pandemic times. This trend highlights a weak labor market recovery. Self-empl...- Noida protest: Minimum wage hikes may push workers out of EPFO net, say expertsMinimum wage hikes in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are impacting Provident Fund coverage. Workers earning above Rs 15,000 may now opt out of m...
- View: Why India fell off the global middle-class mapDespite India’s foray into capitalism, it finds itself trailing behind China in economic development. An elite few gain wealth through fina...
- India’s new jobs report raises questions over underemploymentA new Indian labor report indicates a drop in the jobless rate, but an economist cautions that it may not fully capture the extent of under...
- Official employment data masks India's jobs problem, say economistsIndia's employment growth mainly comes from self-employment, unpaid work, and temporary farm hires, which are not equivalent to formal jobs...
- Unemployment challenge resurfaces amid parliament attack. But will it affect voters’ choice?Economists say unemployment figures are inadequate to capture the distress in India’s labour market, which includes issues like underemploy...
- Working moms-in-law lift female employment in India, study saysA recent study has found that in India, women are more likely to seek formal employment if their mother-in-law is also employed. In urban a...
- The freebies debate: Genesis, definition and impact on welfare & economyThe power of Election Commission to fight freebies has remained vague and limited. There have only been a few instances where the EC exerci...
- Bangladesh outshone India. Now it must learn from its neighbourA cheaper taka will quicken inflation from a nine-year high of 7.6% by raising the cost of imported energy. Shortages of expensive natural ...
- 'Off to Canada': India's jobs crisis exasperates its youthWith his business crippled, the 31-year-old IT undergraduate this month travelled to Rajpura town in Punjab to meet with consultants who pr...
- Lost in the Pandemic: Covid-19 is waning in India but people are still reeling from its blowThe upscale Mumbai restaurant where he used to work paid salaries for two months after the first nationwide lockdown, but then the manageme...
- Over half of formal employees became temps in 2020, shows studyThe poorest 20% lost nearly all their income due to unemployment during the lockdown, while the top 20% lost a little less than a quarter.
- COVID: Rs 8 lakh crore package needed to support lower income groups, says reportAs per the calculations based on CMIE-CPHS data, the report said, around 23 crore people are estimated to have fallen below the national mi...
- Azim Premji University, FICCI, TISS roll out plan for employment generation in MSME sectorThe report proposes the creation of a support system that will improve Ease of Doing Business for largely informal micro and small entrepre...
- Wage levels very low in microenterprise sector, finds new reportThe report said the vast majority of microenterprises are tiny and run with less than three workers.
- 5 million men lost jobs since 2016: ReportThe State of Working India 2019 report has said that five million men lost their jobs between 2016 and 2018.
- 50% India's working-age population out of labour force, says reportThe labour force participation rate stood at 49.8% in 2017-18, falling sharply from 55.9% in 2011-12.
- World's fastest-growing economy isn't creating jobs like beforeIndia may be doing well on the GDP front, but the link between growth and job creation is weakening.
- 92% female, 82% male workers earn less than Rs 10000 per month: ReportThe report is based on data from multiple sources, including from government reports and NSS, up to 2015-16.
- Wages in most sectors growing steadily at around 3% per year: ReportAzim Premji University released today its first ‘State of Working India’(SWI) report based on mostly official surveys conducted in the past.
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