The unorganized sector plays important role in creating gainful employment opportunities, especially in developing countries, which are, in general, labour abundant. The Eleventh Five Year Plan has emphasized that the unorganized manufacturing sector holds the promise of vast employment...

The aim of this paper is to examine the recent employment trends in the unorganised rural non-farm enterprises (URNFEs) in Assam. The analysis based on the National Sample Survey (NSS) 67th and 73rd quinquennial rounds of enterprise survey data reveals that there has been an absolute decline in...

The paper analyses the growth in employment in the urban informal non-farm enterprises (INFEs) in the northeastern state of Assam during the first half of the second decade of the 21st century. The findings of the paper has brought out that employment in the urban INFEs has been growing...