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Why is India facing a shortage of gig workers?

The fledgling online delivery platforms are suddenly facing a shortage of delivery partners. Why are gig workers in such a short supply? How is this affecting food delivery and quick commerce firms?

Employment among industrial workers increased further by about a million in the January-April 2022 Wave

Expectations play an important role in decision-making. Enterprises and the financial markets, for example, allocate funds that reflect their expectations

It may be useful to note that the 8.8 million increase in April comes after a 12 million fall during the preceding three months: CMIE

Economists say job opportunities have been hit by sluggish domestic demand and the slow pace of economic recovery amid rising prices

"The government speaks a white lie when it claims the unemployment rate in the state is only around 6 per cent," Kundu told reporters here

In 2022, India will record the fifth consecutive year of bumper wheat crop

The improvement in sentiments during the early months of 2022 essentially reflects an increase in the proportion of households that believe that their current household incomes are better than they we

Given the magnitude of unemployment, it will be difficult to resolve regardless of whoever becomes chief minister of UP

The delinking of activities from employment status allows a better understanding of what the unemployed do, or as CPHS informs us, what is the nature of occupation of the unemployed

Employment did not exp­and to absorb the unemplo­yed in January. On the contr­ary, it shrank by 3.3 million

While equity markets react to budget announcements in real time, households we believe, take a little longer to digest it. Households are not as cued in as financial markets are

Infection surge due to Omicron has dented recovery only temporarily

We find that the fall in LPR since 2016 has been accompanied with a fall in the proportion of households where more than one person is employed

Economic growth is supposed to deliver on these counts and not just on tax collections or freight movement or foreign trade

By upgrading or augmenting skills, equipping modern tools for better efficiency, people at gig jobs can earn more, some becoming even micro-entrepreneurs

At a time like this when the poor are barely beginning to get their household economy together, any weakening of their twin lifelines - free rations and MNREGA - would be grossly insensitive

In all the major labour market metrics, it is rural India that shows big improvements. Labour conditions improved in urban India also but not as much as they did in rural India

The employment in salaried jobs increased to 84.1 million in September from 77.1 million in August

Investments are down over June 2021, as well as over September last year