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India's Employment Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions

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العنوان: India's Employment Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions
المؤلفون: Dr.A.Shaji George
المصدر: Partners Universal International Research Journal (PUIRJ), 03(03), 38-60, (2024-09-25)
بيانات النشر: PU Publications
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Zenodo
مصطلحات موضوعية: Jobless growth, Informality, Skills mismatch, Employment Crisis, Demographic dividend, Rural distress, Manufacturing policy
الوصف: India is facing a severe employment crisis despite being one of the fastest growing major economies globally. The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the lack of quality job creation across both the formal and informal sectors, leaving over 90% of India’s 470 million strong workforce vulnerable. Key statistics indicate elevated levels of unemployment, limited involvement in the workforce particularly among women, and unsatisfactory employment results even for well-educated young people. This study analyzes the several factors contributing to the crisis, including the insufficient private investment, a limited industrial sector, inflexible labor restrictions, and the inadequate quality of higher education and technical skills development. These factors have greatly limited India's capacity for economic growth and resulted in increasing levels of inequality and poverty. This article also examines the political economy repercussions, shown by the loss of the parliamentary majority in 2019 by incumbent Prime Minister Modi due to his inability to fulfill his commitments on employment creation. Researchers project that if India successfully narrowed the gender disparity in employment participation, its GDP might increase by 30% by 2050, underscoring the need for immediate action. In order to tackle the crisis, the paper proposes policy measures targeted at stimulating private sector investments and generating employment particularly in labor-intensive industries. Other key recommendations include reforms in India’s education and skills development ecosystem to make graduates more employable along with easing the regulatory burden on businesses. Active labor market and employment generation programs specifically targeting women, rural workers and educated unemployed youth have also been suggested. In conclusion, the paper strongly argues for multi-pronged policy efforts by the Indian government and closer public-private collaboration to resolve the country’s employment crisis, fulfill its economic growth potential ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
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Relation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13823598; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13823599; oai:zenodo.org:13823599
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13823599
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13823599
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.4EC72A2C
قاعدة البيانات: BASE