Two studies and a tale of divergent views on employment in the country

One study points to a staggering drop of nine million jobs, the other says no jobless growth, but only the educated are getting employed

Jobless growth in recent years has been a topic of heated discussion among policy makers, economists and the general public. Two recent studies throw up interesting, albeit divergent, findings on the issue.

One of these studies—India’s Employment Crisis: Rising Education Levels and Falling Non-agricultural Job Growth—says employment actually fell by around nine million between 2011-12 and 2017-18 in the country.

However, the other study—Emerging Employment Patterns of 21st Century India—says there is no jobless growth, but that the growth is only creating employment avenues for the better educated.

What the first study says

The first study, penned by Santosh Mehrotra