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New graduates at KLE Technological University in Hubballi, in 2019. There is a downward mobility in the market, with candidates having advanced degrees being forced to take up low-end and low-paid jobs. 

Overqualified and underemployed: India’s graduate crisis in the AI era

Outdated curricula, underfunded education, and the rapid advancement of AI are creating a perfect storm of unemployability for young graduates.
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Job seekers at a Career Fair in Chennai in 2006.

India’s employment crisis: Jobless growth, threat of automation, and impact of climate change on productivity

Employment growth has stagnated at 2 per cent for two decades. Without reaching 4-5 per cent, absorbing surplus labour will be impossible.
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book cover of The Making of a Catastrophe

Pandemic in perspective

It presents an evaluation of the pandemic’s economic fallout and the efficacy of the government’s policies.
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Daily wage labourers wait for work at Labour Chowk, Majlis Park, Delhi, in February 2022.

Can the impact of automation on labour be absorbed by a robot tax?

The effect on a labour-surplus developing country might be devastating in the short term.
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