Overview of Non-Farm Sector in Urban Maharashtra

Dynamics of the non-farm economy has been shifting quite dramatically over the period between 1991 and 2005, showing very significant impact on the potential for employment in this whole sector. While urban areas have added large numbers of non-farm (other) workers by 2001, they have not found regular enterprise jobs, since these very areas have lost hiring capacity by 2005. The increase in enterprises in rural areas seems to have been able to absorb the smaller increases in rural other workers. This can be extrapolated to mean that urban areas added mostly casual, not regular, employment in the non-farm sector, and rural workers might have fared better by getting regular jobs in greater proportion.