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More workers receive salaries, but women are working less

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While the Congress has made lack of jobs its key election plank, the BJP has taken claim to Mudra Bank loans, which helped 4.4 million youths get self-employed in the last five years

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Last Updated : Feb 12 2019 | 12:08 AM IST

Much attention has rightly been devoted to reports in this newspaper of the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’s) estimates regarding the state of employment in India. The most eye-catching revelation, that unemployment is at a 45-year high, is naturally deeply worrying. However, other aspects of the NSSO’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) deserve examination as well. They convey both good and bad news about employment trends and have implications for the framing of government policy.

One such revelation is that, while the overall labour force participation rate (LFPR) has declined sharply between 2011-12 and 2017-18, the two most recent

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