India’s latest PLFS data shows declining urban unemployment, rising rural wage employment and a shift towards non-farm jobs, ...

India's rural unemployment rose to 4.3% in Jan-Mar 2026 after prior declines, while urban joblessness eased to 6.6%. Female ...

India’s labour market in the second quarter (July–September/Q2) of 2025-26 (FY26) showed resilience, with the jobless rate easing even as more people entered the workforce. However, a rise in youth ...

Starting April, India’s official statistical reporting on economic data is in for a significant overhaul with monthly surveys on the labour force, private sector capital investments and faster data on ...

New official data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) reveals that youth unemployment in India reached a ...

Data showed that the unemployment rate in rural areas fell to 4.4 per cent from 4.8 per cent, while the rate in urban areas ...

India's labour market shows improving employment trends and challenges, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions for sustainable growth.

Studies such as India Skills Report 2024 show that the skill sets of our graduates have been catching up with growth trends and employability. In India, the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) ...

New Delhi: India’s labour market has almost completely overcome its quantitative and qualitative scarring from the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2025 Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the ...

Wage data together with employment suggests that while the number of persons seeking jobs and getting employed has increased considerably in last six years, increase in wages has not been able to keep ...

Poverty is estimated on the basis of consumption and not income in part because consumption is easier to measure and smoother than income. (Representative image) A recent study by Arvind Panagariya ...