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Mains 2017 - 953

Question

Maris 2016 - GS2

Maris 2023 -
GS 2
.
-

in India
of Unemployment
Measurement

> MOSPI
who Measuers

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Ns 'Piwing
.
is

sample surveys extrapolation of


te
population
Must
L
Regions
Be a diverse caste
gender
,

representative size
sample .
UErey
NSSO
goestocholds
official NOT in Labour
Force
Y

ask some

questions
to
In Labour
force .

working age
population
further
Questions
all asked

employed inemployed
Rate-
UE
employed
employed- unemployed.

(from
-Whatisthe kry variable/factor polya
Think in this a

Aus : How
you
choose to
define the word
'employed '
Randomised control
Concept of trial .

S done to reduce Bias in


sampling.
How better health outcomes in district.
ex can I
get
:
a

More
Doctors More More More
funds to

informationus ...
PHCS wago

RCT-select 5similar districts

Randomly vary
one variable While
.

kuping ohon

then see
differences .

RCT- Nobel
prize (poverty) [More ou this later]
&
,

used in
sampling
to reduce bias

Defining employed
earlier
(Before 2012) EUS
by
sso
(employment/employment
- -

suncy)
·

Quinquencial Survey
last -
2012 3mo (urban),; 14 (Rmal)

period Create
shortrecall
2017-
shifted to PLFS
,
.

many
technologuest
PLFS- usual status+ woment
Recall period . >
-
weekly
shorter.
status

Technology
More accurate

Bigger sample
size .

Methods
of defining
employment
D Usual Status
[Majority time criteria]
crictria - in Labou
force' < 181
days -actively seekingis
·
-

find work
for more than
majority of time that

they were in labour


force .
#
Employed (principle status)
subsidiary status
-

principally than
unemployed but able to
find work
for more 30
.
days
< Find work
for 101
days
-

ps
·
ex :
In LF
for 200
days
So
find work
days for 35 -

find work for 15 days umployed.


-

Usual Status= status

principlestatus subsidiary ess)


+

Headline Measure
unemployment
.
② Current Status
Weekly
·

If person is in Labour
force in last I week

for
can
they get work , cannot
find
work
for atleast
day
& Hour on
any
one
day
anyone a
the last week
attest #How of
on

employed inemployment
do NOT criteria
CWS
use
majority time

timing of survey
sensitive to

I
seasonality of unemployment
usually UE rate (Cws) (US)
,
<

PLFS both CWS and US


approach
-
uses

uban aleas -

every
3 months (CWS)
·

annual ->
Both urban and rusne (Us + CWS)

③ Current
Daily
Status
Approach
intensity of engagement
and measure the at work
try
we .
Person is in in work 24 Hours-100 % engaged
Labour
force for
engaged
engaged
in work boy. engaged
I
day
1 4 Hones
·
-
-

Unemployment
in work How-
engaged
·

onthis
Basis

Net
Intensity of employment over the last week.

ex : 1
person-in F-5 days
Mon The Wed Thus Fri
Hours :
5 380 6

I I 5
Intensity
:
0 5 .
· +
-

Employment -
100
% DUE-3%
CDS -
used
by
CMIE (unt for monitoring Indian cronomy)
measurement
usually on

up =

CDS) (WS) us .
GS3 Manis 2023 :

Reasons for
unemployment

at the
economy Reasons Reason specific to a
specific to
person
(Macroeconomic an
reasons and
economy
time
y

Y
Y
·
undera swymement
Structural
Classical UT
voluntary unemployment
· · ·

Seasonal
·

Frictional
Keynesian
·
·

cyclical
·
Labor
Market
Diagram
-
People we are
&

supply (Labor)
wagesWhe suring jobs
.

-
Demand
clabors
companies
S
seeking
employees .
Le

employment
Demand Cover factors constant)
Labor
mages
·

willingness
ability
.
Supply Labor <
Wages (other factors constant)
·

Gort fixes Minimum


wage (Price floor)
M

Slabor at MW .
Livel

wages
i
Le Supplysand.
! -4
-
excess
DLabour Labor in

Leg 22
S
economy
Quantity of Labor
unemployment
Classical economists

UE in the is due to Minimum and


economy
labour unious . wages
strong
Strong labour unions
Mint
wage legislations
3-stops Wh
from reaching eqb Level

Leads to
unemployment
Rate
K/a Wage Unemployment
Let Business do Business without
iemployment
solution to ->

regulations
CLaissez faire)

In short won't (Recall have


wage prices
run >
-
more .
:
we
read this

Rum-wageprice eventuallyseea
will at
En Long
t

to
,
operate freely
But How
long
is this
long
Rm ?
-
former
PM

Quote .
School
depression and
of Keynesian
the
The
great emergence
Great
depression in USA (1929)
classical solution- Laissez faire

Economist JM all dead


,
Keynes [ In longru
the we are

Different perspective on
Unemployment .

Keynesian theory of Unemployment


due to
UE is NOT
merely High wages.
4 also
depends on if firms are willing to Hire workers.

MKandaggregate demand Demand


deficit
unemployment
virgow ex :

Covid-19

Firms will Not low
wages but still
employ. unemployment
Keynesian UE- due to low
aggregate
demand.
Aggregate Durand
How
why isie
to restore
it levels ?
High
to

Business
Cycle . rate.

an growth
slowdown
7
M
a
Economy cyclical
is

Economy

wa
~
Nature.
Recovery
Recession ·

growth phase-High BD

3
·
Slowdown > LOWAD
Time > VE

(from Cambrid,
a
However world - don't know where the
,

is at the
in the real
moment
,
we
economy
M

don't know

Real-feronomy
Here we

will
o
(concept of Rolling
Y average
time .
Therefore grow from
wherever
objective in the
economy
is to
-

are
you
to
grow-yAD .

keynes
as
per
periods
of High growth CONVE

low
growth High ut
,

at this times Intervention needed


to
+ growth rate

↑ aggregate demand.

>
tin Quantity of Labor
↑ growth can be due to

↑ in
Quality of Labor
↑ in state
of technology
when
growth due a Quantity of labor
-

Temployment
only
· - to

Recession -> full in AD

employmentis
simply 4 AD-Not cause
will

set in the
of capacity economy
Damand has
a
to
beyond a set threshold -

only then
employment fa l s .
UE due to
varying cycles of economy cyclical UF
-
.

shapes of economic
Recovery
·

-expected
I didNosected
=

zsnape
growth
--

&

I
soneswerd k .
didn't
snaped
some
---

>

of
teare
How to YAD ? -

ES -which
(t M)
-
a
can
recession during
?
Recession
Keynesian
solution -
during govt spending +
-

forthis govt must


will
at time
Boom
&
govt
need to
E

of recover this
later

I
Boom in economy taxt
,
·

countercyclical
·
Recession in
economy
,
Spend t fiscal
policy

Types of UF

voluntary
Structural
frict
a gent
UE
seasonal
unemployment
Natural rate
of unemployment
These 4
types
- .

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