Employment: Growth, Informalisation and Other Issues

Regular salaried persons are also called casual wage labourers.

In urban areas, self-employed and casual wage labourers are more than in rural areas.

During the period 1960-2000, GDP of India grew positively and was higher than the employment growth.

Self-employment is a major employment provider in India.

In year 2001, out of 28 million formal sector workers, about 20 million workers were employed by the public sector.

The people working in informal sector earn more than those in the formal sector.