Statsguru: Public firms are increasingly denying social security to workers

The periodic labour force survey of 2017-18, which had put the extent of joblessness at a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent, has now been studied in detail by economists. One such study by Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Parida for the Bengaluru-based Azim Premji University has important insights on the job crisis, faced by today’s Indian youth, and the quality of government and private sector jobs in India.
 
While the transition from agriculture to other sectors is taking place, manufacturing is not providing the necessary buffer before the workforce shifts to the services sector. When the farm sector shed