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Covid-19: Unemployment rate rises to 24% amid nationwide lockdown

The economic impact of this lockdown by design is evidently huge. Its impact on the livelihood of vulnerable sections of society is immeasurably bigger

Coronavirus impact: Confusion, despair grip MSME cluster in Okhla

A sense of hopelessness pervades the streets in Delhi's Okhla, with row of parked trucks and an ominous silence

Unify the labour market

Time to end divisions between permanent and contract workers

Covid-19 impact: 195 mn full-time workers may lose jobs globally, says ILO

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

Pandemic distress

We need businesses up and running and people back at work - and swift extraordinary actions to make this happen

Unemployment rate over 23%; labour participation rate at all-time low

Labour statistics for March 2020 are worrisome. And those for the past two weeks are much worse

Economic dislocation

FY21 will be a difficult year for all stakeholders

Best of BS Opinion: Unemployment rate, coronavirus outbreak, and more

Business Standard opinion pieces for the day talk about various aspects of the pandemic

Unemployment rate during lockdown: Just like measuring water in ocean

What is the employment status of people who are stuck at home for an extended period of time? Are they unemployed?

India to offer unemployment benefits to workers affected by coronavirus

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

Coronavirus is third shock to Indian economy in a little over 3 years

The impact of the shutdowns on the economy would show up later; but the shutdowns would help contain the spread of the virus

Coronavirus crisis adds to risks as India battles slowdown, unemployment

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

Letter to BS: India battles low GDP growth, unemployment and Coronavirus

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

Labour metrics flounder in February

Relatively stable or tending-to-rise unemployment rate combined with falling labour participation indicate employment rate is falling

Feb unemployment rate hits 4-month high of 7.78% as slowdown persists: CMIE

In rural areas, the unemployment rate increased to 7.37% in February from 5.97% in the previous month

Why should women who are enthusiastic to join workforce exit labour mkts?

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

The Misery Index: What if both unemployment and inflation rates are rising?

The Misery Index is the arithmetical sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate

Why India's present slump is a more serious issue than earlier slowdowns

What is unusual about the current period of slow growth is that it has come without an exogenous driver, unlike all previous periods of slowdown, going back 50 years, writes T N Ninan

Increase SIPs if markets fall

Though boring, these instruments work well if there is a broad bear market

Budget 2020: Govt depts to create over 260,000 jobs between 2019 and 2021

The highest 79,353 jobs are estimated to be created in policing