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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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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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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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Does Employment Quota Explain Occupational Choice Among Disadvantaged Groups? A Natural Experiment from India

Prakash, Nishith; Howard, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the effect of a federally-mandated public sector employment quota policy for minorities on their occupational choice. We utilize multiple logit models to estimate the effect of the policy on the choice between a high, middle, or low-skill public sector occupation during the...

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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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Knowledge-based Economic Development as a Unifying Vision in a Post-awakening Arab World

Schwalje, Wes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This article traces the evolution of knowledge-based economic development in the Arab World. In pursuing this objective … effectiveness of Arab investments in human capital shows marginal progress towards knowledge-based development over the last decade … employers relegates Arab businesses to contesting lower-skilled, non-knowledge intensive industries which has stalled knowledge …

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Agrarian distress and rural non-farm sector employment in India

Abraham, Vinoj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The rural labour market in India is still virtually, to a large extent, dominated by the agriculture related workers, both cultivators and hired workers consisting of more than 70 percent of the rural workforce even in the current decade. However, there have been signs of a shift from farm to...

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The impact of the minimum wage on Spanish youth: Evidence from a natural experiment

Antón, José-Ignacio; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This work assesses the impact of the minimum wage on youth employment, unemployment and education enrolment in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we take advantage of the fact that the minimum wage for people aged 16 and 17 years old, which was approximately two thirds the level...

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General equilibrium models on skill acquisition and economic development: some comments

Bobkova, Nina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Deme et al. (2005, DFN) present a general equilibrium model for the case of Lesotho with a rising step skill acquisition function. DFN show that only a large amount of government expenditure on education, training and skill acquisition can pull the economy out of its inertia. As a comment on...

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Human resources, physical resources and economic development: A foundation of human resource economics

Furuoka, Fumitaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Despite numerous studies on production inputs, such labour and capital, there is still a lack of systematic analysis on the crucial interaction between the human resources (HR) and physical resources (PR) in the process of economic development. Thus, the current paper aims to describe how these...

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