GROWTH OF URBAN POPULATION AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT SCENARIO: CASE OFWEST BENGAL
Keywords:
Unemployment Rates, Travel distance, spatial dependence, urban agglomerationAbstract
This paper examines the spatial pattern of urban unemployment in West Bengal from 2001 to 2011. Unemployment has been analysed with respect to social, demographic and geographical aspects which reflects the spatial dependence character of the urban unemployment. Specifically literacy rate, growth of urban population, presence of urban agglomeration, travel distance and urban population density are being used. Objectives of the paper are to find out the changing spatial pattern of urban unemployment of West Bengal and to identify the factors that largely determine the urban unemployment of the state. It is evident from the analysis that though the urban unemployment of west Bengal has reduced but the labour force increased from 2001 to 2011. Growth of urban unemployment is lower in those districts where large numbers of new census towns emerge. Urban Female unemployment rate is lower in the less urbanized districts of the state compare to the more urbanized districts. Finally multivariate regression reveals that social, demographic and geographical variables have significant role in determination of the spatial pattern of urban unemployment.
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