Employment and Job Creation : Opportunities and Challenges
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Growth and employment linkages: 1. Growth with job creation in Indian economy/S.S. Naik. 2. Generating inclusive growth through decent jobs/J.S. Hatwar. 3. An inquiry into the nature and causes of employment growth/P. Chennakrishnan and K. Jayaraman. 4. The horizon between growth and employment in post-reform India/Rekha Jagannath. 5. Growth and trends of workforce in Indian economy: an analytical study/Sharanappa Saidapur. 6. Job challenges of human resources in the context of globalization/Y. Kesava Reddy. II. Growth and employment strategy: 7. Entrepreneurship for economic development: institutions and theories/V.P. Raghavan. 8. Strategies for way to full employment/M. Kumar Raju. 9. Impact of global aging on labour supply and employment/Sudip Jana and Bipul Malakar. 10. Indian human resource development and unemployment problem/Dhiraj C. Zalte. 11. Growth performance and employment generation of MSMEs/K. Vetrivel and G. Ragunath. 12. Employment generation and rural transformation: with special reference to MGNREGA/Dushyant Kumar and Neerja Maheshwari. 13. Trend of Mahatma Gandhi National rural employment guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) across states in India/Kishor Naskar and Sourav Kumar Das. 14. Strategies of employment generation under MGNREGS: a means of poverty alleviation in Eastern U.P./Sana Fatma, Md. Meraj Alam and Zahin Uddin. 15. Employment generation through MGNREGA in Marathwada: a study of weaker sections of society/Sunil Narwade. III. Growth, employment and job creation: sectoral and regional issues: 16. Employment generation in organized and unorganized retail: a comparative analysis/Ankit Kumar and Dushyant Kumar. 17. Employment opportunities in informal sector/Sk. Asha Begum. 18. Information sector and job creation for inclusive growth in our economy/Subodh Kumar Sinha. 19. Trends and patters of urban employment/Swagota Saha and Mahalaya Chatterjee. 20. Tourism industry and job creation: opportunities and challenges/Harisha N. and Jayasheela….
The present book on “Employment and Job Creation: Opportunities and Challenges” spells the relation between growth and employment via output and investment. The multiplier effects of investment results into expanding activities and expanding job creation in the system besides via effective demand expansion out of income growth through productive employment. It raises the consumption baskets of the work force in general and it gives an incentive to induced investment out of ones saving in favourable social climate. The zigzag of growth process is created by set of indigenous factors in the system. There are many social and political factors that put effective pressures on employment and job creation function of growth. The investing capital class seeks profits expansion and a return on its capital cost, while working class desires opportunities of increased wage income so that it can get translated into assets at their disposal to boost its household income for their disposal to boost its household income for their other social development needs. Technology as set of practical scientific knowledge enters into the development scheme via equipment and instrument for value addition in the quantum of production by the labour force.
This book includes a set of twenty-seven chapters where in Part I discusses growth and employment linkages, Part II discusses the strategies of growth. India adopted for this purpose and Part III regional variation in employment effected through MNGNREGA scheme adopted by Government of India as an additional job creation and employment avenues for the rural masses via infrastructure building and social asset creation approach. (jacket)
