  First, food items excluding oilseed products (weight in WPI: 24.2 per cent): Prices of this group of commodities are largely determined by domestic factors and, in the event of supply shortage, imports influences international prices too.
This is particularly worrisome, as it reduces the chances that they will be rehired: if workers are unemployed for a long period of time, their skills might simply erode. Long spells of unemployment may thus easily turn into structural unemployment.