UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN THE INDIAN ECONOMY DURING COVID 19
The paper focuses to study the Indian labor market in urban areas due to shock of the Covid 19 Pandemic by accessing the secondary data from Periodic Labour Survey. The paper attempts to study and identify the factors behind the falling unemployment rate in the Indian Urban Labor Market during the era of Covid 19. In contemplation of the identification of the factor among the broad status of employment, for the contrasting picture on the decline in the Unemployment rate in the urban areas during the Pandemic times, the paper identifies some of the factors as Own_account_worker_employer and Helper_in_hosehold_expenditure.
Unemployment rate, Covid 19, Indian Urban Labor Market, Periodic Labor Survey