The small relaxations in the lockdown since April 20 have not had any positive impact on the unemployment rate, yet
Joblessness is rising, migrants are returning home in India, and macroeconomic fundamentals are deteriorating
The job market across cities registered a double-digit dip in hiring.
The Mumbai-based think tank said the rate of unemployment was the highest in the urban areas
The economic impact of this lockdown by design is evidently huge. Its impact on the livelihood of vulnerable sections of society is immeasurably bigger
A sense of hopelessness pervades the streets in Delhi's Okhla, with row of parked trucks and an ominous silence
Time to end divisions between permanent and contract workers
Huge losses are expected across different income groups, especially in upper-middle income countries (7 per cent, 100 million full-time workers), said the ILO
We need businesses up and running and people back at work - and swift extraordinary actions to make this happen
Labour statistics for March 2020 are worrisome. And those for the past two weeks are much worse
FY21 will be a difficult year for all stakeholders
Business Standard opinion pieces for the day talk about various aspects of the pandemic
What is the employment status of people who are stuck at home for an extended period of time? Are they unemployed?
This will be along the lines of measures taken by countries such as the US to combat impact of the pandemic on the working population
The impact of the shutdowns on the economy would show up later; but the shutdowns would help contain the spread of the virus
New risk in the form of the Covid-19 virus only adds to the economic cholesterol that India has accumulated over the past few years
The unemployment rate in February 2020, increased from 7.16% in January to 7.78% while GDP growth declined to 4.7% in Q3FY20. If that was not enough coronavirus is disrupting the supply chain now
Relatively stable or tending-to-rise unemployment rate combined with falling labour participation indicate employment rate is falling
In rural areas, the unemployment rate increased to 7.37% in February from 5.97% in the previous month
Labour force participation rate among young women in the age bracket 20-24 years was 14.3 per cent in the September-December 2019 period