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2019 World Day of Social Justice

The World Day of Social Justice is observed every year on February 20 to recognize the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and...

February 27, 2019

ILO releases World Employment and Social Outlook Trends (WESO) 2019’

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has recently released World Employment and Social Outlook Trends (WESO) 2019 report. As per the report, unemployment rates will fall to 4.9% in...

February 18, 2019

World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2019: Key Facts

The International Labour Organisation has released the annual World Employment and Social Outlook Trends for the year 2019. The important features of the report are: Unemployment rates were...

February 14, 2019

Examining the Government Data on Job Creation

The Prime Minister while addressing the Lok Sabha made the following claims about the creation: New jobs were created in the unorganised sector, which accounts for 80-85 per...

February 11, 2019

India’s unemployment rate hits a 45 year high of 6.1% in 2017-18

As per the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’s) periodic labor force survey (PLFS), India’s unemployment rate hit a 45 year high of 6.1% in 2017-18. The latest data...

February 2, 2019

World Day of Social Justice 2018

The World Day of Social Justice is observed every year on February 20 to recognize the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and...

February 19, 2018

Contractionary Policy

Contractionary policy refers to a set of economic measures implemented by a government or central bank aimed at reducing the overall level of economic activity in an economy....

January 8, 2018

Rajiv Kumar committee constituted by NITI Aayog to provide a major thrust to job creation by enhancing India’s exports

NITI Aayog has constituted an Expert Task Force to provide a major thrust to job creation by enhancing India’s exports. It will be headed by NITI Aayog Vice...

September 7, 2017

Labour Bureau Survey and Issue of Low Job Creation

The most recent quarterly survey by the Labour Bureau showed India created only 1.35 Lakh jobs in 2015 in comparison to 9 Lakh in 2011 and 4.19 Lakh...

September 10, 2016

Unemployment in India

There are five sources of employment / unemployment statistics in India viz. NSSO, Economic Census, Employment Market Information Programme of DGET, Registrar General of India and Labour Bureau. ...

December 14, 2015

Types of Unemployment

There are several kinds of unemployment rate as follows. Open Unemployment Open unemployment is a condition in which people have no work to do. They are able to...

December 14, 2015

Concepts Related to Labour Force

Labour Force refers to the number of persons actually working or willing to work. However, workforce refers to the number of persons actually working. Thus, workforce does not...

December 14, 2015