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Youth in the Labour Market: Pathways from Learning to Earning
India is nearing the peak of its demographic dividend, with the share of the working-age population expected to begin declining after 2030. On the one hand, higher education in the country has become increasingly democratised with a rapid increase in the number of institutions. Graduate salaried earnings exceed non-graduates both at the time of entry into employment and over their lifetime. On the other hand, financial barriers continue to restrict access, particularly in professional fields such as engineering and medicine. The transition from education to employment remains a major challenge. The rise in the number of graduates has not been matched by commensurate growth in graduate employment. This year’s State of Working India report traces the arc of a young worker’s transition from school or college into employment, and how this has changed in the last forty years.
Report Files
Full Report — download PDF file
Executive Summary (PDF)
Tables (spreadsheet)
Results Appendix (PDF)
All Figures (Figures 1.1−4.7, Figures 4.8−7.10 )
Figures Data(spreadsheet)
Press Release (English | Hindi | Kannada)
Media Coverage (spreadsheet)
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Entrepreneurship and Marginalised Social Identities in India
in Economic and Political Weekly
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The nature and extent of the under-representation of marginalised caste groups in enterprise ownership in India are examined. It is found that exclusion takes place in three distinct stages. First, the share of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) or Other Backward Class (OBC) individuals in ownership of any enterprise is less than their share in the workforce. Second, among those who do engage in entrepreneurial activities, a disproportionately higher share of entrepreneurs from the marginalised identity groups are engaged in enterprises, which are not purely commercial and are likely to be subsistence-oriented. And finally, even within the owners of purely commercial enterprises, those from marginalised groups tend to be concentrated in the smaller enterprises and are severely under-represented in the larger and more productive ones.
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Azim Premji University, in collaboration with 9 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), conducted a survey of 3,000 households in 92 low-income settlements across 39 wards of Bengaluru. The survey was done to estimate the continuing impact of COVID-19 induced lockdowns and economic disruptions on employment and livelihoods. The survey also captured information on access to government support as well as coping mechanisms to deal with such a crisis. Workers in a wide range of occupations such as drivers (cab, auto, and others), daily wage workers (construction and others), domestic workers, and factory workers (garment and others) were surveyed. The survey was conducted in the month of November 2021 with the help of Action Aid, Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA), The Center for Advocacy and Research (CFAR), Hasiru Dala, Gubbachi, Reaching Hand, Sangama, Swabhimaan Trust, and Thamate.
- Download the full report here
- Press release: English | Kannada
- Key Findings: Short | Detailed
- YouTube video of the virtual event held on 4 April, 2022.
- Recording of the in-person event held on 29 March, 2022 in Bengaluru is available here.
Media coverage
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- Bangalore Mirror: Inheritance of Covid losses (30 Mar 22 | Page 1, 8)
- Rajasthan Patrika: तीन फीसदी परिवारों को ही मिला नकद हस्तांतरण योजनाओं का कुछ लाभ : अध्ययन (30 Mar 22 | Page 1)
- The Hindu: Survey finds that Covid-19 impact on livelihoods continues (30 Mar 22 | Page 4)
- The New Indian Express: Urban poor still coping with job, income loss- Report (30 Mar 22 | Page 2)
- Udayavani: Kannada (30 Mar 22 | Page 8)
– Online
- ETV Bharat: ರಾಜಧಾನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೋವಿಡ್ನಿಂದಾದ ದುಷ್ಪರಿಣಾಮ : ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯ ವರದಿ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿಟ್ಟ ಅಜೀಂ ಪ್ರೇಮ್ಜಿ ವಿವಿ
- Hindustan Times: 3% benefitted from Karnataka govt’s cash scheme
- News9: Bengaluru COVID impact survey- Job, income losses hamper ability of households to recover
- Rajasthan Patrika: कोरोना महामारी : 40 फीसदी ने कम भोजन से किया गुजारा
- The Indian Express: Job and income losses persisted among low-income settlements well past 2020 lockdown- Study
- The News Minute: Job, income losses due to lockdowns continue to impact Bengaluru urban poor
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CSE Working Paper Series
The Evolution of India’s Industrial Labour Share and its Correlates
in Azim Premji University
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There has been substantial recent interest in the decline of labour shares across countries. For the most part, attention has been focused on developed countries. We examine the evolution of India’s labour share in its formal industrial sector from 1983- 2016. Using two datasets corresponding to sectoral aggregate data and plant-level data respectively, we document a secular decline in the labour share across all sectors from 1983, with a stabilisation at very low levels (around 8 to 10 percent) starting around 2005. We then use the plant-level data to identify correlates that illuminate reasons for the overall decline in the labour share. We find strong evidence to support multiple causes: increased capital intensity, greater informalisation, greater privatisation, and productivity increases in larger firms. As such, we suggest that the declines in labour share experienced are due to a composite set of factors. Conversely, other potential explanations (e.g. regional variation in the labour share) have less explanatory power.
Authors:
- Arjun Jayadev
- Amay Narayan
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