A study undertaken by Ghani and associates (2013) on the organized-unorganized sector breakup of India's manufacturing employment has found persistence of the unorganized sector within manufacturing during 1989-90 to 2005-06. A similar analysis undertaken in the paper for a more recent period,...

The paper provides the educational composition of the manufacturing workers in the eighteen selected states of India during the last four NSSO rounds on Employment and Unemployment in India covering the period 1983 to 1999-2000. It finds that manufacturing workers are more literate today than...

Using Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data, after making appropriate adjustments, we estimate that employment in India’s unorganized or informal manufacturing fell by 2.5 to 7.5 per cent in 2020-21, reflecting the impact of COVID-19. In the previous eight years, the average rate of fall in...