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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Squeeze on jobs -TK Rajalakshmi

Squeeze on jobs -TK Rajalakshmi

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published Published on Apr 18, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 18, 2019
-Frontline.in

The Oxfam India report on employment says jobs remain a huge challenge in India where half of the workforce depends on agriculturefor livelihood.

Employment, or the lack of it, has emerged as one of the most contentious issues in the general election this year. Most surveys show that the single biggest concern preoccupying the electorate, especially the youth, is unemployment. The very fact that the government introduced a quota for the economically weaker sections (EWS) in the general category in Central government jobs and educational institutions is a tacit admission of its abject failure to create gainful employment for the millions of educated youths.

A recent report by Oxfam India, Mind The Gap: The State of Employment in India in 2019, reiterates what most economists and trade unions have been saying for some time now—that jobless growth has been a phenomenon ever since the government embraced neoliberalism and that the share of wages in production compared with profit has been going down. Moreover, the report points to how workforce participation rates of women have been going down for economic and structural reasons, and how high economic growth has not translated into better lives for the masses.

The 222-page report discusses the phenomenon of deep wage inequality and its reasons, the link between inequality and rural employment, the falling female workforce participation, unpaid care work for women, labour law reforms, contract labour dynamics, forms of stigmatised employment in India, and the state of social security. The eight chapters focus on the lack of decent work and “state-sponsored inequalities”, which the report’s authors argue exacerbated problems of income and employment inequality in the country. The report strongly critiques the government’s policy approach to labour which, it says, is based on the premise that “informality” with regard to job and income security (informal self-employment) is not necessarily undesirable.

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Frontline.in, 26 April, 2019, https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article26781822.ece?homepage=true


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