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This document discusses various topics related to employment and unemployment in India, including: - It defines key terms like workforce, labour force, self-employed vs hired workers, and types of unemployment. - Around two-fifths of India's population is engaged in economic activities, with most workers being self-employed, casual laborers, or regular salaried employees. - Approximately three-fifths of India's workforce depends on agriculture. - Issues discussed include jobless growth, casualization and informalization of employment, and unemployment. - Causes and measures to address unemployment in India are also outlined.

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Chapter 7 Ied

This document discusses various topics related to employment and unemployment in India, including: - It defines key terms like workforce, labour force, self-employed vs hired workers, and types of unemployment. - Around two-fifths of India's population is engaged in economic activities, with most workers being self-employed, casual laborers, or regular salaried employees. - Approximately three-fifths of India's workforce depends on agriculture. - Issues discussed include jobless growth, casualization and informalization of employment, and unemployment. - Causes and measures to address unemployment in India are also outlined.

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Employment: Growth, Informalisation and other Issues class 12 Notes

Economics

Work plays an important role in our lives as an individual and as members of society.

A worker is an individual, who is involved in some productive activity, to earn a


living.

An economic activity refers to the activity performed by people to earn the living.
The main three types of economic activities are consumption, production and
distribution.

Production activity refers to all those activities which are under taken to produce
goods and services for generation of income.

Labour force: All persons, who are working (have a job) and those are not working
but able to work and willing to work at the existing wage rate constitutes labour force.

Labour Force: Persons working + persons seeking and/or available for work.

Work force: The number of persons, who are actually employed at a particular time
are known as workforce. It includes all those persons who are actually engaged in
productive activities. This includes person between age group of 15-60 years.

Labour supply: It refers to various amount of labour that workers are willing to
work, corresponding to a particular wage rate.

Work Force Participation Rate(Ratio):- It is measured as the ratio between


workforce and total population of a country.

) Types of workers:
(a) Self employed
(b) Hired workers
i. Casual Workers
ii. Regular Workers(Salaried)

(a) Self Employed:- The worker who own and operate an enterprise to earn their
livelihood are known as self employed.
(b) Hired workers:- Those people who are hired by others and are paid wages or
salaries as a reward for their services are called hired workers.

1. Casual Workers:- Those people, who are not hired by their employers on a
regular/permanent basis and do not get social security benefits are said to be
casual workers.
2. Regular Workers(Salaried):– When a worker is engaged by someone or by
an enterprise and paid his or her wages on a regular basis, they are known to
as regular salaried employees or regular workers.

About two-fifthof the total population in the country is engaged in various economic
activities.

Men particularly rural men, form the major section of workforce in India.

Majority of workers in India are self employed, casual wage labourers and regular
salaried employees together account for less than half the proportion of India’s
workforce.

About three fifth of India’s workforce depends on agriculture and other allied
activities as the major source of livelihood.

Jobless Growth: It is defined as a situation where GDP grows faster than the
employment opportunities resulting in unemployment.

Casualisation and informalisation of employment: Casualisation refers to a


situation when the percentage of casually hired workers in the total workforce tends
to rise over time.

Informalisation: Refers to a situation when people tend to find employment more in


informal sector of the economy, and less in formal sector of the economy.

Unemployment: It is a situation where a person is ready and willing to work at the


prevailing wage-rate but doesn’t get work.

Unemployment Rate: It is calculated as percentage of labour force who are


unemployed, not as percentage of total population.

Types of unemployment:

1. Rural unemployment
a. Seasonal Unemployment
b. Disguised Unemployment

2. Other types of unemployment


a. Open
b. Frictional
c. Structural
d. Cyclical

3. Urban Unemployment
a. Industrial Unemployment
b. Educated Unemployment
c. Technological Unemployment

 Frictional unemployment is defined as the unemployment that occurs


because of people moving or changing occupations.
 Structural unemployment is defined as unemployment arising from technical
change such as automation, or from changes in the composition of output due
to variations in the types of products people demand. For example, a decline
in the demand for typewriters would lead to structurally unemployed workers
in the typewriter industry.
 Cyclical unemployment is defined as workers losing their jobs due to
business cycle fluctuations in output, i.e. the normal up and down movements
in the economy as it cycles through booms and recessions over time.
 Open Unemployment refers to that situation wherein the worker is willing to
work and has the necessary ability to work yet he does not get work
and remains unemployed for full time.
 Seasonal Unemployment:- It refers to a situation where a number of person
that are not able to find a job in a particular season.
 Disguised unemployment is a kind of unemployment in which some people
look like being employed but are actually not employed fully. This situation is
also known as Hidden Unemployment. In such a situation more people are
engaged in a work than required.In other words it refers to a situation of
employment with surplus manpower in which some workers have zero
marginal productivity. For example in rural areas, this type of unemployment
is generally found in agricultural sector.
 Technological Unemployment:- A somewhat structural unemployment may
take place in an economy as a result of technological improvement. Such
unemployment may be described as technological unemployment. Due to the
introduction of new machinery, improvement in methods of production, labour-
saving devices etc., some workers tend to be replaced by machines. Their
unemployment is termed as “technological unemployment.”
 Educated Unemployment:- Among the educated people, apart from open
unemployment, many are underemployed because their qualification does not
match the job. Faulty education system, mass output, preference for white
collar jobs, lack of employable skills and dwindling formal salaried jobs are
mainly responsible for unemployment among educated youths in India.
Educated unemployment may be either open or underemployment.
Causes of unemployment:

a. Slow rate of economic growth


b. Population explosion
c. Underdeveloped agriculture
d. Defective educational system
e. Slow growth of Industry
f. Decline of cottage and small industry.
g. Faulty planning
h. Inadequate employment planning.
i. Low capital formation.
j. Excessive use of Foreign Technology
k. Lack of financial resources
l. Increase in labour force

Remedial measures for unemployment:

a. Accelerating growth rate of GDP


b. Control of population growth
c. Development to small scale enterprises.
d. Encouragement in infrastructure.
e. Special employment programmes.
f. Rapid industrialisation.

Special programmes to fight poverty and unemployment:

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA)


Its a significant recent attempt of govt, offering guaranteed employment to those in
the rural areas who are below poverty line.
a. Swarnjyanti sahari Rozgar yojna.
b. Swarnjyanti Gram Swarozgaar yojna.
c. Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Rozgar yojna.

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