The Employement
On the other hand, level of poverty is very high. As per the
latest official estimates, the
proportion of poor in the country is
around 36 per cent This obviously means that a large proportion of the workers
are poor and as such poverty and not unemployment is the main problem This is
typical of a labour surplus developing
economy where most people are engaged in
subsistence activities and unemployment is rather a luxury .With
about half of the worker engaged
as self-employed, they share whatever work is available leading to acute
underemployment and poverty .it is not surprising that incidence of poverty was must higher among employed (39%) as compared
to the unemployed (27.7%) during 2004-05. Consequently, the unemployed
were mostly educated as they could
afford to get support from their families . during 2004-05 the average years of
schooling of the unemployed were 8.8 years whereas in case of the employed ,it
was just half of this (4.4 years ) .thus, as a whose the unemployed are
younger, better educated and economically better off than the employed, on an average.
by krishan yadav
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