NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the unemployment report was only a draft, and that the government could release jobs data in March
Calling it a 'national disaster', Gandhi attacked Modi, saying he had promised two crore jobs, but five years later a ' leaked job creation report card'
Ideally, the job estimates should be derived using record-level data and appropriate weights for each observation
Lack of jobs was apparently a less serious problem then than it is today
Urban regions saw a deterioration in labour market metrics
Former PM Manmohan Singh recently said the BJP-led govt's promise to generate 20 mn jobs annually has turned out to be a 'gimmick'
It is likely that the BJP government will make the Ram temple an election issue for the coming Lok Sabha elections, but jobs are unlikely to feature as one of the major issues
The survey - 'What Worries the World' conducted by the Ipsos, an independent market research company.
Demonetisation had led to a sharp fall in the labour participation rate
Men did not display much fall in their overall labour participation after demonetisation
Sikkim has the second-highest unemployment rate in the country after Tripura, the unemployment rate per 1,000 people aged more than 15 years was at 136 in 2016-17 in the state
Gandhi used a media report quoting Krugman's warning that the India story could end with mass unemployment
With unemployment reaching very low levels in major economies, despite low inflation, it's time to rethink the so-called natural rate
The overall figure for the country stood at 9.84 per cent
The continuing claims data covered the survey week for April's unemployment rate
Today, even MBAs are also waiting for jobs
The unemployment rate is the ratio of unemployed people to the total labour force
The number of unemployed people has gone up by over 11% between 2014 and 2015
While the overall unemployment rate is 5 per cent, it is 5.2 per cent for the OBCs, the minister said
The number of unemployed persons remained unchanged at 7.9 million