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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why clubbing employment and work in India is misleading -Jayati Ghosh

Why clubbing employment and work in India is misleading -Jayati Ghosh

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published Published on Sep 8, 2018   modified Modified on Sep 8, 2018
-Hindustan Times

This lack of distinction explains the decline in women’s workforce participation rates. The decline reflects a shift from paid to unpaid work.

New Delhi: One of the difficulties with discussions on employment in India is the tendency to conflate employment and work. But employment is only that part of work that is remunerated, and in India a vast amount of work is actually unpaid and often not even socially recognised. Once we recognise that, a lot of what appears to be inexplicable about Indian employment trends becomes easier to understand.

This is especially true of women’s work. There has been much discussion on the evidence from recent National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) large sample surveys on employment, of the significant decline in women’s workforce participation rates.

The work participation rate of rural women aged 15+ years declined from 35 per cent in 1999-2000 to 24 per cent in 2011-12, while the rate for urban women did not change from the really low rate of 16.6 per cent. Various explanations have been offered for this, from more young women being engaged in education (which is still not enough to explain the decline) to rising real wages that have allowed women in poor households to avoid or reduce involvement in very physically arduous and demanding work with relatively low wages. Implicit in this discussion is a notion of a household-level backward bending supply curve, which allows women especially in poorer families not to “work” when their economic conditions allow it.

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Hindustan Times, 7 September, 2018, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/why-clubbing-employment-and-work-in-india-is-misleading/story-6OXHFBZybpJ6d1dFcudgHP.html


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