Employment and Unemployment in
India:
A Temporal Analysis with Special Reference to Northeastern Region
Marchang Reimeingam
Supervisor Prof. Amitabh Kundu
MPhil Dissertation,
CSRD, JNU, New Delhi
2003
Abstract: The study presents a detail
account of the concepts and definitions pertaining to employment and
unemployment in the Census. A brief literature on socio-economic indicators as
an explanatory factor for the variation in unemployment rates is also reviewed.
The trends and patterns of employment (work force participation rates) and
unemployment rates have been examined at the level of national and states/union
territories. It also analysed the level of unemployment rates at district level
of Northeastern Region. NSS does not conduct survey at district level;
therefore district level unemployment rate is generated using census data that
is the main objectives in the study. The study is confined only to a few
specific aspects of chronic and open unemployment as the basic data are from
the Census. It also examined the various factors that changes in the level of
unemployment rates through a correlation matrix for the states/UTs of India as
well as district level of Northeastern Region. After drawing an overall
conclusion a few suggestions were made to improve the anomaly regarding the
concepts and definitions of non-workers of census data, to adopt same concepts
and definitions of workers and non-worker in the survey by NSS and census for
data comparability, to conduct survey at district level by NSS and long-term
demographic policies to curb unemployment rates among others.
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