-The Telegraph Higher GDP growth rate has often been accompanied by slowing job growth, an Azim Premji University report says New Delhi: Job creation has not only failed to keep pace with the country’s GDP growth over the decades, a higher GDP growth rate has often been accompanied by a slowing job growth, a recent report says. The State of Working India 2018, a report by the Azim Premji University, would come as...

-ThePrint.in Study by Azim Premji University finds that graduates currently make up over one-third of India’s unemployed population. New Delhi: Graduates and postgraduates are the least likely to find jobs in the country as compared to those without any degrees, according to a study released by the Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment. The study, which states that unemployment among young and highly educated Indians is the highest in 20 years, has...

-Livemint.com The ‘State of Working India’ report by Azim Premji University shows that the low wage is so evident that people earning Rs. 50,000 or more constitute just 1.6% of the total workforce in India New Delhi: Despite economic growth and gradual formalization of the workforce, low wages and wage growth remain key challenges with 57% of regular employees earning Rs. 10,000 or less a month, a new report published on Tuesday...

-HuffingtonPost.in According to the report, this shortage of jobs is compounded by depressed wages. NEW DELHI: The biggest new challenge facing India's policymakers and administrators is rapidly rising unemployment, says a report released on Tuesday by the Centre for Sustainable Employment of the Azim Premji University. "Unemployment levels have been steadily rising, and after several years of staying around 2-3%, the headline rate of unemployment reached 5% in 2015, with youth unemployment being...

-The Hindu Study: divergence between growth and jobs has risen With higher growth rates not having translated into more jobs and increases in productivity failing to spur a commensurate rise in wages, the government ought to formulate a National Employment Policy that takes these trends into account, the State of Working India 2018, a new study released by Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment, recommends. Confirming the spectre of jobless growth, the...