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- The ‘State of Working India 2023’ report was released by Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment.
- The overall unemployment rate reduced to 6.6 per cent in 2021-22 from 8.7 per cent in 2017-18.
- But, over 42 per cent of India’s graduates under 25 were unemployed in 2021-22.
- In 2021, 32% of general caste workers were in regular wage employment as compared to 22% of SC workers.
- In 2018, 75.6% of sons of SC/ST casual wage working fathers were themselves casual wage workers, a dip from 86.5% in 2004.
- A steeper fall is noticed for sons of general caste casual wage working fathers, to 53% in 2018 from 83.2% in 2004.
- Since the 1980s, the share of workers employed in non-agricultural sectors increased significantly, with the figure standing at 19.8% in 2021.
- As of 2021-2022, about 40% of SC women were in employment as opposed to only 21% of general caste women.
- Salaried women workers in India now earn 76% of their male counterparts, compared to 70% in 2004.
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