IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/rdevec/v22y2018i2p787-807.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

Author

Listed:
  • Sripad Motiram
  • Karthikeya Naraparaju

Abstract

We develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the duration and intensity of unemployment. This measure satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity, which deals with differences among the unemployed. It is particularly suited to developing countries because individuals in these countries display considerable variation in labor force participation, unemployment duration, and unemployment intensity. It can also be decomposed into mean and variance components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of the population. We use this measure and data from National Sample Surveys on employment and unemployment to understand unemployment in India during the period 1993 to 2012. We show that unemployment has generally fallen, although the distribution of unemployment has worsened. Moreover, unemployment is driven to a greater extent by higher educated groups; the unemployment among these groups is also fairly substantial. We explain these findings and suggest some policies.

Suggested Citation

  • Sripad Motiram & Karthikeya Naraparaju, 2018. "Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(2), pages 787-807, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:787-807
    DOI: 10.1111/rode.12367
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12367
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/rode.12367?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sripad Motiram, 2018. "Inequality of Opportunity in India: Concepts, Measurement and Empirics," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 12(2), pages 236-247, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:22:y:2018:i:2:p:787-807. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1363-6669 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.