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Rome:Kerala has ranked low in male employment conditions among 22 states, with only Bihar and Odisha ranking worse, according to a report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), in collaboration with the Institute of Human Development (IHD)...
A breakup of the data showed that Keralas seemingly dire employment scenario for males is visible through two main factors an unemployment rate much higher than the national average among educated males (aged 15-29), and low male youth engagement in employment, education, or training...
The employment condition index takes into account the percentage of workers employed in regular formal work, the worker population ratio, the proportion of casual workers, the proportion of self-employed workers with income below the poverty line, the average monthly earnings of casual workers, the unemployment rate of youths with a secondary or higher level of education, and the youth not in employment, education, or training...
Keralas high percentage of male casual workers brought down its male employment condition index, but the high wages indicated better quality casual work than in other states...
A January 2023 working paper by the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, attributed high youth unemployment rates to a mismatch between employment aspirations and opportunities in the labour market.. existing jobs do not match the employment aspirations of youth, and the misalignment between their aspirations and the available employment could be partly responsible for the high unemployment, it said.. Higher relative occupational aspirations gap among youth compared to adults indicates that young people who are more educated than their elders aspire for better jobs than the existing ones, it added...
