Demonetisation\, GST impact on jobs more than NSSO\'s headline numbers

Demonetisation, GST impact on jobs more than NSSO's headline numbers

The unemployment rate, measured in terms of the usual status approach, stood at a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent in the July 2017-June 2018 period

Somesh Jha  |  New Delhi 

The real impact of demonetisation and the goods and services tax (GST) — two big economic decisions taken by the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance — on jobs has been much more than what is shown in the headline unemployment rate figures given in the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO's) report for 2017-18.

According to the current weekly status (CWS) approach of the NSSO’s periodic labour force survey (LFPS), the unemployment rate stood at 8.9 per cent in 2017-18. In this approach, the activity status of a person is determined on the basis ...

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First Published: Fri, February 01 2019. 01:56 IST