Analysis of several field studies on the Indian informal sector in the context of a macro framework. Urban poverty and underemployment as reflected in the shape of the informal sector are intrinsic to the structure of all developing economies. Production and marketing linkages of the informal...

The paper examines measurements of unemployment and employment and suggests the additional use of the productivity criterion which is shown to permit the indentification of the genesis of unemployment and wasteful usage of time. Application of the criterion to the estimation of underemployment...