Employment and Socio-Economic Development

This book focuses on the basic concepts of employment, socio-economic development, and their physical, economic, social, cultural, demographic and political determinants. It deals the trends and geographical patterns of employment rate by area and sex which is based on census data and it also analyses the casual relationship among employment rate of both sexes (total, rural and urban) and selected variables of socio-economic development. The regional variations of main and marginal workers by sex are also discussed in the book. It also studies the structure of employment, relationship between employment structure and selected variables of socio-economic development, and employment regions. This book also emphasises the regional variations in the levels of social, economic and aver all socio-economic development with tables and figures. Apart from this, an endeavour has also been made to examine the relationship between the regional disparity of employment rate and social, economic and socio-economic development. It is hoped that the book completed in a highly structured and readable style. It will be highly useful for the students, teachers and researchers involved in various disciplines of social sciences especially Geography, Demography, Population Studies, Sociology and Economics. This book will also be much interest to planners, policy makers, administrators and social workers.