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S1 Ep56: Hidden unemployment in India

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What Do You Know About the Lived Experience of the People Whose Labor Is Rational?

A lot of people who are self employed in villages actually just want wage jobs. And if you look within farm households, like among small holder farmers, about 50 % of the farm labor that we see is forced on trib inertia. People are doing that just because they can't find wage jobs. They prefer the wage jobs. The other thing we learn that we already anof new is that seasonality is a big deal.

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