Graduates under 25 years in India have the highest unemployment rate among all education levels for the same age group. We explain the other major findings of the 'State of Working India 2023' report, released by Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment.
Also, there has been an upward trend in intergenerational mobility, but the trend has been weaker for workers belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes categories as compared to workers belonging to general castes.
Wage data collected by the Centre for Labour Research and Action reveal a steady decline in real wages of brick-kiln workers in the last 10 years. Brick-kiln work is a fallback occupation for some of India’s poorest groups.
The Periodic Labour Force Surveys have been conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, since 2017.