{"id":243909,"date":"2023-05-24T19:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=243909"},"modified":"2023-05-24T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:15:43","slug":"since-2014-the-poorest-communities-are-earning-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/since-2014-the-poorest-communities-are-earning-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Since 2014, the poorest communities are earning less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSince 2014, the poorest communities are earning less\u201d <\/strong>published in the Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a024th\u00a0May 2023.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About growth rate trends of poor communities.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: According to Labour Bureau data, in 2022-23, the growth rate of real wages was just 0.2% for male agricultural labourers, and it is negative for non-agricultural labourers and construction workers.<\/p>\n

What are the growth rate trends in the past decade?<\/h2>\n
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Source: Indian Express<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The real wages of male agricultural labourers, non-agricultural labourers and construction workers grew at less \u2014 much less \u2014 than 1% per year between 2014-15 and 2021-22. It is just 0.8% per year for agricultural labour, 0.2% for non-agricultural labour and slightly negative for construction workers (men only).<\/p>\n

How do growth rate trends change if one alters the methodology?<\/h2>\n

The \u201cunpack-repack method\u201d<\/strong>:\u00a0If one calculates state-specific, month-specific year-on-year growth rates, and then aggregates them using unweighted averages over months and population-weighted averages over states, the results will change. In that case, the real wages will be rising fast between 2014-15 and 2018-19.<\/p>\n

Calculating annual growth rates<\/strong>: If one calculates under this method, then the real wages are much the same today as in 2014-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Rising inequality in India \u2013 Explained, Pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Which method one should prefer?<\/h2>\n

-Labour Bureau data clearly point to near-stagnation of informal-sector real wages in recent years.<\/p>\n

-The wage data collected by the Centre for Labour Research and Action reveal a steady decline in real wages of brick-kiln workers in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: Brick-kiln work is a fallback occupation for some of India\u2019s poorest communities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: Women-dependency of Indian agriculture: Gender discrimination in farms<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cSince 2014, the poorest communities are earning less\u201d published in the Indian Express on\u00a024th\u00a0May 2023. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it. Relevance: About growth rate trends of poor communities. News: According to Labour Bureau data, in 2022-23, the growth rate of real wages was… Continue reading Since 2014, the poorest communities are earning less<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-243909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791067,"cached_date":1701661117},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}