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The Employment-Unemployment Situation in India in the Nineteen Nineties: Some Results from the NSS 55th Round Survey (July 1999-June 2000)

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Based on a comparative analysis of the NSS Employment-Unemployment Surveys for 1993-94 and 1999-2000, this paper examines, at the all-India level, the changes in: the size and structure of workforce; the extent of unemployment and under employment; in labour productivity and days worked; and, in wage earnings per worker and per head of population in rural and urban India. Key results include, a slower growth of work force relative to that of population, a reduction in the share and size of the work force in agriculture and in community, social and personal services; and, widespread gains in labour productivity getting translated into equally widespread and significant growth in average wage earnings per worker and per capita.

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  • K. Sundaram, 2001. "The Employment-Unemployment Situation in India in the Nineteen Nineties: Some Results from the NSS 55th Round Survey (July 1999-June 2000)," Working papers 89, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
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    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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