Our Indian economy is facing, the problem of unemployment from a long time. Different economists and social scientists are stressing on this fact and making several policies to get rid of this problem. But this increases with time to time. The recent released PLFS: 2017-18 report show that there is a huge increase in unemployment rates among different sectors (rural & urban) and especially among female population. To analyse the extent and nature of unemployment in present situation we have made a comparative analysis between the unit level data pertaining to NSSO 68thround EUS (2011-12) and PLFS (2017-18). Our Regression results show that there is a sharp increase in the proportion of unemployment in India with the increase in non-agricultural casual labour based households along with the regular wage based households, minority communities, adult females and high levels of education. Previously also unemployment was very much persistent among the educated youths, but now-a-days the increase in educated unemployment is significantly excessive high. This creates a problem for a developing country like India which is presently enjoying the fruits of ‘demographic dividend’.
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Keywords: States of Employment, Educational Unemployment, Vulnerability, Labour Market, PLFS.
