India Employment Report 2024

India employment

India Employment Report 2024 released

  • Released by – International Labour Organization (ILO) and Institute for Human Development (IHD)
  • Objective – Examines the challenge of youth employment in India and changes over the past two decades.
  • Employment growth remained stagnant up to 2019 and then moved upward
  • However, the growth is dominated by poor-quality employment in informal sector
  • Slow and steady transition of the workforce to non-farm employment has reversed due to the covid pandemic. Women largely account for increase in self-employment and unpaid family work.
  • Wages has remained low and are either stagnant or declining.
  • Labour productivity consistently increased alongside capital investment
  • Key Recommendations –
    • Make production and growth more employment-intensive.
    • Improve job quality through investing in emerging sectors
    • Overcome labour market inequalities boosting participation of women and youth.
    • Make systems for skills training and active labour market policies more effective.
    • Bridge knowledge deficits on labour market patterns with reliable statistics

Source: The Hindu


Previous Year Question

Disguised unemployment generally means:

[UPSC Civil Service Exam – 2013 Prelims]

(a) large number of people remain unemployed
(b) alternative employment is not available
(c) marginal productivity of labour is zero
(d) productivity of workers is low

Answer: (c)


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