A study undertaken by Ghani and associates (2013) on the organized-unorganized sector
breakup of India’s manufacturing employment has found persistence of the unorganized sector within
manufacturing during 1989-90 to 2005-06. A similar analysis undertaken in the paper for a more recent
period, 1999-2000 to 2011-12, reveals that the share of the unorganized sector in manufacturing
employment has declined by about ten percentage points.