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Child Deprivation: An Extended Approach to Child Labour

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The present paper imparts that it is need of the hour to take a broader view of child labour to include not only the reportedly working children but also those nowhere children, namely those neither reported working nor attend school. In line with the perspectives of human capital, human...

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When Will India Achieve Universal Adult Literacy: Status and Prospects

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The present paper examines status and disparities across sub-population groups distinguished by location, gender and caste, and across, states with respect to literacy. It also explores the prospects of literacy rate in India with a modelling of simulation exercise while considering different...

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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal

Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...

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Do Nations Combine O-Rings with Cobb-Douglas? Evidence from agriculture, equipment production, and the informal sector

Oasis, Kodila-Tedika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The article focuses on the conditional relationship between various human capital proxies and the size of potential “O-Ring” or “Cobb-Douglas” sectors. We find that that years of schooling are a robust negative predictor of the size of the informal sector, conditioned on national average...

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Is body mass human capital in sports? Outcome of globalization of sumo wrestling and generation of human capital in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with wrestlers’ winning rate and absence rate. Further, the effect of BMI is compared between an early period (before the emergence of foreign...

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Unemployment among educated youth: implications for India’s demographic dividend

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Researchers claim that India is poised for reaping demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation utlising the relatively larger share of youth or working age persons in total population. However, the outcome depends on the contribution of youth to national...

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On the spatial diffusion of knowledge by universities located in small and medium sized towns

Rego, Conceição; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

a higher level of education and R&D. The relationship between the acquisition of knowledge and institutional education … innovation, enterprise spirit and management capacity. Given that higher education institutions, in general, and universities, in … particular, are obviously crucial in the process of knowledge increase, it becomes important to analyse how can these …

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Positive self-image over time

Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper incorporates egocentric comparisons into a human capital accumulation model and studies the evolution of positive self image over time. The paper shows that the process of human capital accumulation together with egocentric comparisons imply that positive self image of a cohort is...

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The Influence of a wife’s working status on her husband’s accumulation of human capital.

Mano, Yukichi; Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Japanese household-level data describing a husband's earnings, his wife's working status, and their schooling levels are used to test the implications of a model proposing a time-consuming process of human capital accumulation within marriages, in which an educated wife is more productive. The...

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Déterminants de la participation au marché du travail et choix occupationnel: une analyse microéconométrique appliquée au cas de l'Algérie

Lassassi, Moundir; Hammouda, Nacer-Eddine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

A review of the literature on the issue of labor market participation and occupational choice, allows us to see that research on this topic turned more on developed countries. In developing countries, including Algeria, the determinants of participation in economic activity and individuals’...

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