Youth participation in the labour force has been heartening and so is the participation of women, both in urban and rural India. As per the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), unemployment has dropped from 17.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 10 per cent in 2022-23 for youth in the age group ...
(2020) find both demand- and supply-side mechanisms at play in stagnating the LFPR. A higher probability of women’s labour market participation is associated with education beyond the secondary level, lower levels of household consumption, and the white-collar job of the husband (ILO 2016). ...