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Measuring Unemployment Trends in India*
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Oct 18th 2021, Prabhat Patnaik
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In
India only a tiny segment of work-force has full-time
employment; there is no close correspondence between
the magnitude of work and the number of working people.
Thus, official statistics in India have for long used
not one, but several measures of unemployment, but none
of them is any good at capturing unemployment trends.
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This article was originally published in People's
Democracy on October
17, 2021.
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