High growth, few jobs

Cause for worry for India

• Share of total employment in agriculture decreased from 63.3 per cent to 55.7 per cent between 1995 and 2008
   
• Share of employment in industry increased marginally from 11.2 per cent to 12.8 per cent between 1995 and 2008
   
• Share of employment in the services sector increased marginally from 21.3 per cent to 25 per cent
   
• Real wages in this period grew marginally from -1.8 per cent to 0.7 per cent

From the report:

“Developing countries not only need to create enough employment in quantitative terms, they also need to improve the quality of jobs. A major characteristic of the labour is large number of low-productivity jobs and relatively few modern, high-productivity jobs.”