पाठशाला भीतर और बाहर के इस 5वें अंक में शामिल है एक लेख कि बच्चों का सवाल पूछना कितना जरूरी है और उन सवालों को किस तरह से समझा जाए। शिक्षकों के क्षमता संवर्धन में उनके अनुभवों का लिखा जाना कितना जरूरी है, बच्चों को सवाल पूछने के अवसर देना और उनके सवालों को समझना जैसे विषयों पर महत्वपूर्ण आलेख भी इस अंक में शामिल हैं।

The recently released data from the 2017 – 2018 Periodic Labour Force Survey have created a controversy regarding the quantity of employment generated in the past few years in India. Estimates ranging from an absolute increase of 23 million to an absolute decline of 15.5 million have been published. In this paper we show that some of the variation in estimates can be explained by the way in which populations are projected based on Census 2011 data. We estimate the change in employment using the cohort-component method of population projection. We show that for men total employment rose but the increase fell far short of the increase in working age population. For women, employment fell. The decline is concentrated among women engaged in part-time or occasional work in agriculture and construction. 

Authors:

• Paaritosh Nath
• Amit Basole

Does there exist a trade-off between labour’s income share and output growth rate? Or does a reduction in wage share in itself reduce the output growth rate? These questions have returned to the centre stage in the midst of India’s present crisis as the government sought the dilution and suspension of labour laws as a counter-cyclical policy instrument. In the absence of any other stimulus or countervailing factors, the impact of such a policy would hinge on the relationship between income distribution and effective demand. This paper attempts to lay bare this relationship for the Indian economy through an empirical analysis of India’s macro data and a theoretical model on the basis of regression results.

Author:

• Zico Dasgupta