Where are the jobs? Fewer wage earners in organised, unorganised sectors

About 30 million people under 30 years of age had a salaried job in 2016. By 2019, this number dropped by five million to 25 million. This decline is as intriguing as it is disturbing

Employment takes many forms and a salaried job is only one of them. CPHS captures all forms of employment -- whether it is formal or informal employment in the organised or unorganised sector; whether it is a salaried job or entrepreneurship in some form, even if the entrepreneurship is essentially self-employment. Today's gig workers would classify as self-employed entrepreneurs, for example. So would the typical Ola/Uber cab driver. CPHS is designed to cover them all -- so long as they live in households in India.

The first observation we make is that the overall employment in India has been almost