Issues in the Indian Labor Market: Insights from PLFS Survey
Published: 2019
Author(s) Name: K R Shyam Sundar, Rahul Suresh Sapkal |
Author(s) Affiliation: Professor, HRM Area, XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur.
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Abstract
Post-demonetization years followed
by the introduction of
GST have been characterized by
“jobless growth”. The shrill debate
in the absence of credible
official data of the magnitude
and character, the erstwhile
National Sample Survey (NSS)
database became controversial
and even served fodder for electoral
discourses. For controversial
reasons the NDA Government
withheld the release of
the revised and refined Periodic
Labor Force Survey (PLFS) till
April 2019. This article analyses
the PLFS data and the NSS
data to bring out the contemporary
features of labor market
and traces the temporal patterns
during 2004/05 – 2017/18. It
shows that there is not only “job
crisis”, but rising unemployment
and deterioration in the conditions
of employment.
Keywords: N.A.
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