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Innovation, human capital and earning distribution: towards a dynamic life-cycle approach

Vona, Francesco; Consoli, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

School dropout has emerged as major hindrance to human capital formation in developing countries globally and efforts are on to stem this. The present paper attempts to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest policies to tackle the problem in India context by using field...

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Proximate Determinants of School Dropout: A study on Rural West Bengal

Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In recent days, controlling school dropout has emerged to be the prime hindrance to spread literacy and formation of human resource thereby. The present paper is an attempt to identify proximate determinants of school dropout and suggest probable solutions to the problem. Status of enrollment &...

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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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The Development of Knowledge in Portugal: A Slow and Unsustainable Progress

Chagas Lopes, Margarida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Abstract Development of knowledge in Portugal occurred late and slowly, mainly as a result of political and … institutional factors which persisted with democracy. Amongst knowledge key areas, education, research and development (R&D) and … innovation advanced with frequent setbacks. This irregular behaviour induced very negative economic and social consequences given …

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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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India’s demographic dividend: opportunities and threats

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Demographic transition creates a small window for countries to leverage their demographic dividend and leapfrog to a higher level of income-employment situation. This opportunity comes in the middle stage of demographic transition when the population pyramid shows signs of maturity and bulges in...

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Workers on the move: migrated labour in post-reform india

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Migration is a universal phenomenon. From time immemorial women and men have travelled in search of better living. Historical nomadic instinct of man had been in tune with his necessities – more endurable climate, adequate water supply, fertile land and general availability of resources have...

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Productivity Growth in Small Enterprises - Role of Inputs, Technological Progress and 'Learning By Doing'

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) in an overpopulated developing economy serve the dual role of job-creation and shifting the occupational structure. However, their contribution to the overall health of the economy are being questioned on grounds of low productivity and economic viability....

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Emergence of Knowledge Society: The Indian Scenario

Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Knowledge Society is characterised by recognition of knowledge as main source of efficiency, competitiveness, and … of ‘Knowledge Economy’ in OECD countries and its emergence in the developing countries. This new model of growth and … development, depending more on human knowledge and efficiency rather than on difficult to disperse physical capital, is supposed …

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