An Empirical Study Of Covid On Employment In India

Abstract

Covid-19 has affected the employment sector all over the world including India. India was already going through a slow economic growth and that was even lowered by the pandemic situation of Covid-19. There is an increase in the level of unemployment and the people were going through huge financial crisis as they are forced to work with salary cuts, many of them have even lost their loss. This long standing economic recession at global and national level is leading the world towards unemployment, under employment and working poverty as well which is declining the population's income and the profit of the enterprises. A sample of 213 people from the different working sectors were surveyed to know the effect of Covid-19 in the employment in India and also how they are affected by Covid-19. Mean and t test was applied to get the appropriate results. The study concludes that that there is a significant effect of Covid-19 on the employment sector of India.