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Terms

  • Labour force
    • ages 15 - 64 who are working or looking for work
    • unemployment rate measured over labour force
  • Disguised unemployment
    • related to agri, where marginal productivity zero
    • eg. 10 ppl working on farm where 5 are sufficient
  • Underemployment
    • overskilled people working in jobs demanding fewer skills
    • eg. PhD working at call center
  • Capital Intensive Growth Model
  • Hindu Rate of Growth
    • low (<3.5%) GDP growth
    • India experienced till 1970s
  • Jobless Growth
    • after 1991, India went out of Hindu rate of growth, but failed to create more jobs due to muted manufacturing
    • problems of disguised unemployment and over tertiarization of Indian economy
  • Gig Economy
    • freelancers, without social security
  • Employment elasticity
    • change in employment wrt change in GDP
    • eg. EE in 2012 = 0.04 (jobless growth)
  • Creative Destruction
    • dismantling of existing economic structures (industries & jobs) due to R&D
    • can cause economic prosperity and create new jobs in long run