That primary employment is rising is a reason for hope | The Indian Express

That primary employment is rising is a reason for hope | The Indian Express

Written by Amaresh Dubey, Laveesh Bhandari |Updated: November 20, 2019 9:26:56 am

The writer is professor, Centre for Study in Regional Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

The writer is an economist and heads Indicus Foundation

That primary employment is rising is a reason for hope

It is time we moved away from the larger sob-stories of falling/stagnating employment towards where the light and dark spots are and what they reveal about a rapidly changing economic structure.

There is a very large literature in the country on disguised unemployment and unproductive and extremely small household enterprises. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar)

Employment has been the subject of much argument over the past few years and it appears that it will continue to be so. We conducted a simple exercise: To understand how employment patterns are changing over time, we used the comparable PLFS and NSSO data of surveys conducted in 2004-5, 2011-12 and 2017-18. And within that, we analysed the employment reported as per usual primary status.