Employment Trends in India in the 1980's and the 1990's in Relation to Output and Other Variables

The study proposes to examine the association between growth in employment and economic growth. In the course of the study, we also examine the relationship between employment growth and other variables like labour productivity, capital intensity per worker etc. with a view to form hypotheses for further study. The empirical examination reveals that growth rate in employment and economic growth has no statistically significant relationship. But growth during 1980-81 to 1999-2000 cannot be described as jobless growth as growth itself has not been statistically significant during this period. Increase in growth during the 1980s has just been sustained in the 1990s.